A Delicate Way to Boil Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a pan of water to a boil.
Carefully add the eggs and cover the pan tightly.
Let the eggs sit for 5 minutes for soft eggs, or 6-7 minutes for harder eggs.
Note that fresher eggs may take longer to cook.
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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