Originally Published:
Jubilee Cook Book, 1887
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Pick over and wash one cup of rice. Into three small cupfuls of water put the rice, salt it well, let it boil twenty minutes (the water should boil away), then remove to the back of the stove and let it stand ten or fifteen minutes, keeping it covered. Do not stir it, and pour it out .as carefully as possible, so as not to break the kernels.