watch what you’re doing.
add more water as it’s needed.
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...Each kind of grain or bean, even each variety of the same kind, cooks up a little differently. My mother worked on a project trying to discover the perfect method for cooking rice when she was in college. She found that rice varies so much the best method was to watch the rice cook. That’s almost my method in a nutshell: watch what you’re doing. Taste what you’re cooking to see if it’s done and tender; and add more water as it’s needed.
on Cooked Grains & Beans : General Considerations, in Julie Jordan her Wings of Life : Vegetarian Cookery (1976) : 85
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