Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a covered dish or tin pail.
Pour boiling water over the eggs until fully submerged.
Cover the dish and let it sit for 10 to 12 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Protein that sets with gentle heat, so the white firms while the yolk stays soft.
The step that matters
Covering the dish while the eggs sit. The covering holds in heat so the eggs keep cooking evenly. Timing matters because yolk and white set at different temperatures, so a few minutes changes the texture a lot.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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