Baked Eggs Florentine

Name: Baked Eggs Florentine
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 , large shallot, minced; 1 tablespoon, all-purpose flour; 3/4 cup, half-and-half; 10 ounces, frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry; 2 ounces, Parmesan cheese, grated (1 cup); , Salt and pepper; 1/8 teaspoon, dry mustard; 1/8 teaspoon, ground nutmeg; Pinch, cayenne pepper; , Vegetable oil spray; 6 , large eggs

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

Ideally, this dish should feature tender whites and runny yolks—but it almost never does. We baked hundreds of eggs trying to crack the code.

SERVES6

TIME1 hour

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our recipe achieves the ideal combination of runny yolks nestled in fully set yet tender whites by turning up the oven to 500 degrees. Adding the raw eggs to preheated ramekins ensured that the heat transfer was rapid and that the egg white...

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