[Sca-cooks] how to cook 20 lbs of rice

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

> Vicente wrote:
>
> >Does anyone remember HG Cariadoc's method for cooking large amounts of rice in
> >a pot?  Specifically, how much water in proportion to the volume of rice?
> >  I remember the method well enough.
>
> Proportions for the rice we used (basmati) are, if I remember
> correctly, 1 cup rice to 1.75 cups water. It does depend on the kind
> of rice, however; I remember some rice coming out soggy when we were
> doing a feast away from our home group and one of the local people
> bought a kind of rice we weren't familiar with.
>
> Elizabeth/Betty Cook

If you have the oven space, baking rice works very well.  I did about 15
pounds that way at my last feast.  Two parts near-boiling liquid to one part
rice; cover pans tightly; bake about 45 minutes at 350-375 F.  It comes out
nice and fluffy.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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