Coddled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a bowl and pour boiling water over them.
After 1-2 minutes, pour off the water and pour boiling water on again.
Cover the bowl and let sit for 3-4 minutes for soft-boiled eggs.
Longer soaking will result in harder eggs.
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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