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Old Woman Frying Eggs - Diego Velasquez (1618) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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One for the family albumen

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[โ€“] Snoopey@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those look like poached eggs to me. Yum!

[โ€“] Davel23@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Per Wikipedia:

There is some dispute about what cooking process is actually depicted with some suggesting not frying but poaching, leading to an alternative title of the painting, Old Woman Cooking Eggs or Old Woman Poaching Eggs.