Poached Egg on Toast
What you need
- 1 egg
- a splash of vinegar
- 1 slice of bread
- butter
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Bring a pan of water to a bare simmer with the vinegar. Stir a whirlpool, drop the egg into the middle, cook three minutes and lift out with a slotted spoon onto buttered toast.
How it feels to make
Stirring the whirlpool and dropping the egg into the middle of it feels like a magic trick you're performing for yourself.
Mom wrote on the back
Barely simmering water. Rolling boil tears the egg to shreds.