Treating Rice to Make.it More "Filling"
Following is an extract from Szechuan amissionary's letter to friend in Shanghal:—The people here have found that} steaming their rice before hulling it makes more pints of hulloo vice to the bushel than is the ease when it is hulled without steaming and furthermore it holds off hunger Tonger when cooked in this way. I works out about as follows:
Ten bushel of unhulled rice give about four bushel and eight or nin pints if hulled raw. The same amount gives a good five bushel if} hulled after saming and drying. The treated rice also expands more! than the raw in the final cooking
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.