On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:25:01 -0400, Dan Logcher
> wrote:

> hellohello wrote:
> > Stormmee;1450815 Wrote:
> >
> >>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.


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>

--
Ken Blake
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