Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a pot and cover them with cold water.
Put the pot on the stove and bring the water to a boil.
Once the water boils, remove the pot from heat and let the eggs sit for 4 to 5 minutes.
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 the whites while the yolk stays soft and runny during the short resting time.
The step that matters
Removing the pot from heat at the boil. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat, so timing the rest from the moment the water boils controls how firm the yolk becomes. Leaving them longer than 4 to 5 minutes gradually sets the yolk.
“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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