In cooking, coddled eggs are gently or lightly cooked eggs, they can be partially cooked, mostly cooked, or hardly cooked at all, as in the eggs used to make which salad of romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and black pepper?
Coddled egg:  Poached eggs are eggs that, arguably, are coddled in a very specific way: they are very gently cooked, in simmering water.
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