Quick Boiled Rice

Ingredients

• one measure of rice
• five measures of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Put one measure of rice in five measures of boiling water.

2. 2

   Cover closely and boil rapidly for twenty or twenty-five minutes, till tender.

3. 3

   Drain, partly cover, and set for fifteen minutes where it will keep hot and dry off.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking and castle-building (1880) by Emma P. Ewing, Marietta McPherson Greenough, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one measure of rice, and soak for an hour. Then cook it in the same water, by setting the dish containing it in a steamer, and steaming it for one hour. When put to steam add a small quantity of salt, and stir two or three times with a fork during the first fifteen minutes. Rice cooked in this manner will be white and dry, with each grain separate and distinct, yet soft and palatable. If desired, part of the water can be left out, and its equivalent in milk added, when the rice is nearly done cooking. One advantage of this method is, that rice can be boiled in a china bowl, or any vessel preferred. " If you wish to cook rice quickly, I know of no better way than this : Put one measure of rice in five measures of boiling water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.