A Delicate Way to Boil Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a pan of water to a boil.
Carefully add the eggs to the boiling water.
Cover the pan tightly and remove it from the heat.
Let the eggs sit for 5 minutes for soft eggs or 6-7 minutes for harder eggs.
Serve immediately.
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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