Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a covered dish or tin pail.
Pour boiling water over the eggs until fully submerged.
Cover the dish and let it sit for 10 to 12 minutes without boiling.
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
- Set gently in the residual heat of the water, giving a soft, runny yolk and tender white.
The step that matters
Let the eggs sit without boiling. Keeping the water below a boil and covering the dish holds heat steadily around the eggs. Too much heat or too long a rest sets the yolk fully, while too short a rest leaves the white underdone.
“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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