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How to Cook Rice

A historical recipe from California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger.

A historical recipe

California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger. Project Gutenberg eBook #39586.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Also printed in: California Mexican-Spanish cookbook (1914).

Source and licence

From California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book, by Bertha Haffner-Ginger. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #39586 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39586). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Mexico. Associated with Mexico by the book is about Mexican cookery (Cooking, Mexican); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

  • one cup to five cups

Method

  1. Wash rice in several waters, drain, rub between towels until dry, throw the rice spoonful at a time, one cup to five cups, into boiling hot salted water, boil hard for ten minutes then slowly until all water is absorbed, put asbestos mat under vessel and do not stir;
  2. grains will be dry and separate from each other.