Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place eggs in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover them, about ½ pint per egg.
Heat the saucepan over medium heat until the water boils.
Once boiling, remove the saucepan from the heat and let the eggs sit in the water for 1 minute.
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
- Proteins in the white and yolk set into a firm structure when heated.
The step that matters
Once boiling, remove the saucepan from the heat and let the eggs sit in the water for 1 minute.. Residual heat finishes setting the yolk gently. Leaving the eggs in hot water too long overcooks the yolk, which can form a grey-green ring around it and a rubbery 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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