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To Boil Eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Boil Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a saucepan with hot water.

  2. When the water is about to boil, gently add the eggs using a spoon.

  3. Let the eggs boil, then remove the saucepan from the heat.

  4. Allow the saucepan to sit on the side of the stove for five minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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