Soft Boiled Egg
Ingredients
Directions
Place the fresh egg in a quart cup.
Pour boiling water over the egg.
Let it stand away from the stove for eight minutes.
Serve immediately.
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
- Egg
- Sets into a soft, tender texture as its proteins firm gently during the standing time.
The step that matters
Letting the egg stand for eight minutes. The egg keeps cooking from residual heat after the water is poured. Timing sets the white while leaving the yolk runny. Standing too long firms the yolk, and too short 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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