Elegant, Easy, and Eggilicious

My Grandpa made this for me all the time when I was little! I found four cute yellow egg cups that looked like tulips at Tuesday Morning a couple of years ago for a steal! I love this for breakfast :-) Thank you for the post, brings back lovely memories!

KellyJ on May 18, 2010

This has been my absolute FAVORITE way to eat eggs since I was tiny. One of my favorite comfort foods. When I was very small we had an egg cup that was in the shape of a clown and we called it the clownie cup and my brother & I used to fight over it. My mom still has it!

Gayle on May 18, 2010

these take me back to my childhood-- and I have collected any old or pretty egg cup I could find over the years just because they are (can be) pretty !

Sally Curtis Wimberley on May 18, 2010

Thank you so much for this post. My husband is Canadian by way of Great Britian and he enjoys soft boiled eggs also. I can't count the number of times he's order soft boil and had to return them. What a lovely surprise. I'm going to order the spoons & egg cups.

Rose on May 18, 2010

The foolproof way is to start from cold, then as soon as the water boils turn off the heat, put on a tight lid and set the timer for 2 minutes for a very soft boiled egg, maybe 3 minutes if the eggs are very large.

Anna on May 18, 2010

You need to look on ebay for the egg cups. Your post made me decide to get some since we have just started raising chickens!
I am bidding on some adorable egg cups from the UK that have chicken pictures on them, they're so cute and not at all expensive!

Karen on May 18, 2010

Oh dear, I was outbid! Ok, which one of you got them???
lol!
They were cute tho. I may have to just get plain white ones. :-(

Karen on May 18, 2010

This was my mother's favorite breakfast; she called them "dippy eggs". I inherited her special scissors designed just for cutting the top off.

I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning!

Vladdie on May 18, 2010

You call the strips of toast that you dip - soldiers!!

Pat on May 18, 2010

I love my egss this way. My mom always made them for us soft boiled on saturdays!

Jacqui on May 19, 2010

My Grandparents used to make these for breakfast all the time when I was little. I totally forgot how delicious and simple these are. I will have to make one now and relish in the nostalgia of soft boiled eggs. Thanks for the memories! Yum!

Claire on May 19, 2010

I have another solution to the lack of egg cups and spoons: Baked Eggs!

Personally, I like poached eggs, but I was trying to find a new way for my kids to enjoy eggs since they both seem to have forgotten that they used to love them scrambled. So, I was browsing through Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything and ran across Baked Eggs.

You just put a dab of olive oil in the bottom of a ramekin, crack the egg on top, and bake it at 375F for roughly 12 mins, give or take a minute depending on how you like your eggs.

If you're feeling fancy, you can sprinkle some panko bread crumbs on top before you bake it.

Also, a light sprinkling of kosher salt and a grind or two of pepper are the "icing."

With a 1/2 tsp of olive oil and without the breadcrumbs, this is about 83 calories.

Julie on May 24, 2010

Thanks for searching out good deals on the cups and spoons. Here's one more to add -- Amazon sells the "Egg Topper Cutter" which is used to neatly snip the end off the boiled egg. It's only $3.29. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/3ydktbr

Lynn on May 26, 2010

LOVE soft boiled, but not too runny, 'cause the "eggy" flavor isn't pleasant. Now, I never use an egg cup, special spoon, or egg snipper. I just eat them like you would with a hard boiled egg. I like the white cooked, and then I get the consistency I like from the yolk too. You might call it a 4 or 5 or 6 minute egg. try one of these:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4684860_soft-boil-egg.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Soft-Boiled-Egg

http://recipes.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_boil_an_egg_soft_hard_or_deviled

OR I soft fry them "over medium" as an "egg in a basket".

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=55625

(use a non-stick pan & the egg sticks to the toast, not the pan. I always use whole grain toast too. It bums me out that you can't get this in restaurants.

Gotta try the "Baked Eggs" thanks Julie. I love eggs.

Kristina on June 7, 2010

I use to love eatig duck eggs. Being a Vietnamese person, at least once a year we'd eat them. Not something so common for my family though. We'd boil them, use the bottom of the egg carton as the holders, and eat them with teaspoons. Teaspoons are sort of hard to use but I guess we just got use to them. In Vietnam, eating duck eggs are believed to make one intelligent and if a woman is pregnant, the child will have a lot of hair (for beauty).

Kathy on December 23, 2010