[Sca-cooks] Cooking rice in feast quantities

[Stefan li Rous]

Brighid ni Chiarain asked:
> Your Grace,
>
> I suspect I'm not the only one who would like more detail about this
> method.  What quantity of rice did you use in one pot?  What was
> the proportion of water to rice?  And how long does it take to finish
> cooking?

Well, I'm not His Grace (nor very graceful), but perhaps this will help.
The topic of cooking large quantities of rice was one of the early
topics
on this list. You can find a number of the comments from this discussion
and from later ones in these files in the FOOD section of the Florilegium:
cooking-msg       (34K)  3/22/94    Cooking techniques.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/cooking-msg.html
frumenty-msg      (62K)  6/21/01    A period cooked grain dish, often barley.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/frumenty-msg.html
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