To boil rice well

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Yield
8.0 pounds of savoury rice
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (8)
Boiling Rice
Another way
Instructions (13)
To boil rice well
  1. Wash six ounces of rice, picked clean, changing the water three or four times.
  2. When the rice is clean, drain and put it into two quarts of boiling water.
  3. Boil twenty minutes.
  4. Add three quarters of a tablespoonful of salt.
  5. Drain off the water well.
  6. Set it before the fire, spread thin to dry.
  7. When dry, serve it up.
  8. Ensure the rice is dry so each grain separates easily from the others.
Another way
  1. Put one pound of rice into three quarts of boiling water.
  2. Let it remain twenty minutes.
  3. Skim the water.
  4. Add one ounce of hog’s lard and a little salt and pepper.
  5. Let it simmer gently over the fire closely covered, for an hour and a quarter.
Original Text
Rice, to boil. To boil rice well, though a simple thing, is rarely well done. Have two quarts of water boiling, while you wash six ounces of rice, picked clean. Change the water three or four times. When the rice is clean, drain and put it into the boiling water. Boil twenty minutes; add three quarters of a table-spoonful of salt. Drain off the water well—this is the most essential point—set it before the fire, spread thin to dry. When dry, serve it up. If the rice is not dry, so that each grain separates easily from the others, it is not properly boiled. Another way. Put one pound of rice into three quarts of boiling water; let it remain twenty minutes. Skim the water, and add one ounce of hog’s lard and a little salt and pepper. Let it simmer gently over the fire closely covered, for an hour and a quarter, when it will be fit for use. This will produce eight pounds of savoury rice.
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