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Default I just spent the morning cooking rice wrong

On 7/1/2016 1:41 PM, Janet B wrote:
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> I just spent the morning cooking rice wrong. Twice and going on the
> third time. By the second time I figured that I wasn't paying
> attention and did it wrong the first time. So I carefully measured
> 1/2 cup rice to 2 cups of water and set it on to cook again. Wallpaper
> paste. What the heck? Then it dawned on me. The hummingbird food
> recipe is 1 cup of sugar to 4 cups of water and rice is 1 cup of rice
> to 2 cups of water. Arrgh! Old brain trying to multi task don't work
>
> Janet US
>

The measurements are usually on the package of rice. Not that I cook a
lot of rice anymore. But in a saucepan it's a 1:2 ratio, rice to liquid.

Sorry you had a problem with it, Janet.

Jill