Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the eggs in a covered dish or tin pail.
Pour 2 quarts of hot water over the eggs.
Steep and serve
Cover the dish and let it sit for 10 to 12 minutes.
Serve the eggs warm.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Proteins set with gentle heat, so the white firms while the yolk stays soft and creamy.
The step that matters
Timing the sit in hot water. The eggs keep cooking from residual heat after the water is poured. Stopping within the 10 to 12 minute window controls how firm the white and yolk become, so checking the time matters.
“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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