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Brown Eggs

Brown eggs are fried eggs cooked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Brown Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break each egg into a separate cup.

  2. Drop one egg at a time into the hot fat.

  3. Fry for 1 minute until browned.

  4. Remove the egg and repeat with the next egg.

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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What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set and brown in the hot fat, forming the crisp edges and tender centre of the fried egg.

The step that matters

Dropping one egg at a time into the hot fat. Adding several eggs at once drops the fat temperature and crowds the pan, so the eggs steam instead of browning and whites spread together.

“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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