Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place eggs in a saucepan and cover them completely with water.
Bring the water to a boil.
For soft-boiled eggs, boil for 3 minutes.
For medium-boiled eggs, boil for 4 to 5 minutes.
For hard-boiled eggs, boil for 8 to 10 minutes.
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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