TO BOIL RICE DRY

Pick the rice clean and wash it in two cold waters, not draining off the last water until ready to put the rice on the fire. Prepare a saucepan of water with a little salt in it. When it boils sprinkle in the rice. Boil it hard twenty

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minutes, keeping it covered. Then take it from the fire, pour off the water, and then set the saucepan on the back of the range with the lid off, while the rest of the dinner is being dished, so as to allow the rice time to dry and the grains to separate. Rice, if properly cooked, should be soft and white and each grain should stand alone.