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Boiled Eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a small saucepan with cold water.

  2. Set it over a medium heat and bring the water to a boil.

  3. Once boiling, gently add the eggs.

  4. In cold weather, warm the eggs slightly to prevent cracking.

  5. Count to twelve, then cover the saucepan tightly.

  6. Remove from heat and let sit for eight minutes for a perfectly cooked egg.

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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