To Boil Eggs in the Shell
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.
Prepare
Bring a pot of water to a boil.
Carefully add the eggs to the boiling water.
Cook and serve
Boil the eggs for 9-12 minutes depending on desired doneness.
Remove the eggs and place them in cold water to stop cooking.
Sprinkle with coarse sea salt before serving.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Egg proteins set with heat, so cooking time controls whether the yolk is runny or firm.
The step that matters
Boil the eggs for 9-12 minutes depending on desired doneness.. Egg proteins keep setting while the eggs are hot, so the yolk goes from soft to firm and chalky over this window. Moving the eggs to cold water right after cooking halts the heat and keeps the yolk at the chosen doneness.
“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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