How to Boil an Egg.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 219, 11 December 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

How to Boil an E gg.

“ Now, girls, how many of you know how to boil an egg T” asked Miss Farina, as she smiled encouragingly on the fifty neatly dressed young women who attended the training school for nurses in the hospital on Blackwell’s Island. Two or three hands went np hesitatingly, and one young woman ventured the suggestion that “ yon put the egg in boiling water and keep It there two minutes and a half.” This was amended by another to read “ three minutes,” bnt the amendment was not accepted. “Now, girls, what did 1 tell yon about albumen the other day !” expostulated the lecturer. 11 If you subject it to a beat above boiling point, it—” "Coagulates,” prompted a brightlyed listener.

*' No, it becomes hard, positively indigestible, Just, like India rubber j so if you put an egg in boiling water for two and a half minutes you will find part of the white hard and tough and the other part uncooked, a nice thing to put in a sick man’s stomach. If, on the other hand,l poor boiling water on an egg, and then lec it stand where it is just warm for ten minutes, it will be all cooked through and easily digestible," The experiment was performed and resulted to the confusion of the young woman who leaned to the two minutes and a half theory.