Breakfast Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the eggs in a vessel that holds at least 2 quarts.
Fill the vessel with boiling water and cover it tightly.
Cook and serve
Let the eggs sit for 7 minutes for soft, 10 minutes for medium, or 12-15 minutes for firm eggs.
Crumple a napkin in a hot dish and serve the eggs arranged in its folds.
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
- Protein that sets as it heats, firming the white and yolk to the chosen doneness.
The step that matters
Timing the eggs under cover. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after the water is hot, so the time chosen sets the doneness. Small changes in time noticeably change whether the yolk is soft, medium, or firm.
“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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