Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a covered dish or a tin pail.
Pour boiling water over the eggs until fully submerged.
Cover the dish and let it sit for 10 to 12 minutes.
Serve the eggs warm.
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
- Eggs
- Protein structure that sets gently with heat, giving a soft, custardy yolk and set white.
The step that matters
Covering the dish while the eggs sit. The covering holds in heat so the water keeps the eggs hot for the full 10 to 12 minutes. Without it, the water cools, and the whites and yolks may stay runny.
“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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