Hard Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a pot of water to a rapid boil.
Carefully add the eggs to the boiling water.
Boil the eggs for 8 minutes.
Remove the eggs and place them in cold water to stop the cooking.
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 coagulate when heated, setting the white and yolk into a firm texture.
The step that matters
Boil the eggs for 8 minutes. Egg proteins set progressively with heat, so too little time leaves runny yolks and too much leads to a dry, chalky yolk with a grey-green ring. Timing controls the final 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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