Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place eggs in a saucepan with cold water, using ½ cup of water for each egg.
Heat the saucepan over medium heat until the water boils in 3-4 minutes.
Once boiling, remove the saucepan from heat and let the eggs sit in the water for 1 minute.
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
- Egg proteins set with heat, so the white firms and the yolk cooks through as the pan is heated.
The step that matters
Removing the pan from heat after boiling. Eggs left in boiling water keep cooking from residual heat, and the yolk can turn chalky and grey at the edges. Timing the one-minute rest keeps the yolk set but tender.
“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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