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Ken Blake wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:25:01 -0400, Dan Logcher
> > wrote:
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>>hellohello wrote:
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>>>Stormmee;1450815 Wrote:
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>>>>so the other day i finally got around to making this, i used brown rice
>>>>
>>>>because that is all i had, and ended up putting it in the blender to get
>>>>the
>>>>final bits smooth but i can heartily recooment this for a comfort food,
>>>>Lee
>>>
>>>
>>>haha,it's definitely your failure.
>>>well ,you can use automatic electric rice cooker to make congee.in this
>>>way it is very easy to do so . you just need to add some water about a
>>>finger above your rice.then you can get delicious congee.

>>
>>The finger method always baffles me.. I have short fingers, so would my rice
>>come out the same as someone with long fingers? I measure my rice and never
>>have a problem. For congee its 10:1 water rice ratio. Works great.

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> That reminds me of my sister-in-law, who is Chinese. On day (years
> ago, not very long after she first came to the USA) her husband asked
> her to pour "two fingers" of scotch for him. She put two fingers in a
> glass *vertically*, and measured that way.
>
> He got a *lot* of scotch! <g>


Ha ha! That's pretty funny.

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Dan