Boiled and Coddled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Heat the water
Bring water to a boil in a pot.
Add the eggs to the boiling water.
Rest and set
Remove the pot from the heat and cover it tightly.
Let the eggs sit in the hot water for 6 to 8 minutes for coddled eggs.
For hard-boiled eggs, leave them in the water longer.
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
- Egg proteins set gently in the hot water, giving a soft, custard-like texture when coddled.
The step that matters
Timing the rest in the hot water. Egg proteins keep setting from residual heat after the pot leaves the burner. The time in the water decides whether the yolk stays runny or the egg firms fully, so timing controls the texture.
“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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