Soft-Boiled and Hard-Boiled Eggs

Origin: Florence, Italy

Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Drop eggs into boiling water; time from that moment: two minutes for soft, six to seven for medium, ten for hard-boiled.
  2. As soon as they come off the fire, plunge them into cold water.

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