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

[Jeanne Papanastasiou]

Basmati rice takes twice as long as white rice to cook.  It also takes TWICE
as much water as white.  Wild rice isn't period nor is it a rice.

We cook rice down south by boiling it.  I used a 30+ qt pot and boil my rice
in 5 lbs at a time.  It can cook while I'm preparing other plates.

Soffya
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Born & bred in New Orleans
Know how you can tell a person is from New Orleans?  They put a pot of rice
on to boil before the coffee

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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