To Boil Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the eggs
Pour 1 pint of water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil.
Gently add the eggs using a spoon.
Boil the eggs for 3 and a half minutes.
Remove the eggs and wipe them clean.
Serve
Place the eggs in large egg cups with the larger end facing up.
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
- Heat sets the egg white and yolk proteins, so the cooking time controls how firm the eggs become.
The step that matters
Boil the eggs for 3 and a half minutes. Egg proteins keep setting while the eggs cook, so the timing decides whether the yolk stays runny or turns firm and chalky. Lifting the eggs out at the set time stops the cooking.
“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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