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Poached egg   /poʊtʃt ɛg/   Listen
Poached egg

noun
1.
Egg cooked in gently boiling water.  Synonym: dropped egg.






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"Poached egg" Quotes from Famous Books



... for her on her birthday. The nurse takes the kid out ostensibly to get a breather, and they beat it down here. If you want an instance of the irony of fate, Bertie, get acquainted with this. Here's the first commission I have ever had to paint a portrait, and the sitter is that human poached egg that has butted in and bounced me out of my inheritance. Can you beat it! I call it rubbing the thing in to expect me to spend my afternoons gazing into the ugly face of a little brat who to all intents and purposes has ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... gives me at least a chance of getting one of the sort of eggs I like by accident. As for poached eggs, I agree. There are nine ways of poaching eggs, and each of them is worse than the other. Still, there is one good thing about poached eggs: one is never disappointed. One accepts a poached egg like fate. There is no sitting on tenterhooks, watching and waiting and wondering, as there is in regard to boiled eggs. I admit that most of the difficulties associated with boiled eggs could be got over by the use of egg-cosies—appurtenances of the breakfast table ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... of toast with eight artichoke fonds (cooked or canned). Put a whole poached egg in center of each, and cover with brown sauce seasoned with ham. Dust eggs ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various



Words linked to "Poached egg" :   dropped egg, dish



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