Recipe - How To Cook White Rice (Claibornelee)

2 cup Raw extra longgrain rice
3 cup Water

1. Pour the rice into a sieve and rinse it thoroughly under cold running
water until the water runs clear. Drain.

2. Add the rice to a saucepan and add the water. (If softer rice is
desired, up to an additional One half cup water may be added.) Cook the rice,
uncovered, over high heat about 10 minutes, or until "fish eyes" (tiny
craters) form over the surface of the rice. Cover closely and cook over
very low heat about 20 minutes longer.

YIELD: 4 or more servings

Source: The Chinese Cookbook, by Craig Claiborne & Virginia Lee, 1972

Note: The authors write, "The quality of rice varies, and we have found
that the best rice commonly available in the United States for the Chinese
kitchen is extra longgrain rice. Specifically, we use Carolina brand."

"Few Chinese cooks measure water for cooking rice by volume. Instead, they
add water to a certain level above the rice and then test the depth by
holding a finger in the water above the rice; it should come just to the
first knuckle of the middle finger. Salt is almost never used in cooking
rice in a Chinese kitchen."

Typing/Busting by Brenda Adams adamsfmle@sprintmail.com; mc posted
9/22/97

Recipe by: Claiborne/Lee, "The Chinese Cookbook"

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #796 by Badams adamsfmle@sprintmail.com on
Sep 22, 1997