Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

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Method

Poached eggs, like pancakes, get better the more you make, so this is another case of practice makes perfect. First of all, the eggs must be as fresh as possible – this means a few days, no older, or the whites will fly apart. The water should not be boiling rapidly and there is no need to create a whirlpool effect before adding the