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Hard-Cooked Eggs Let stand in hot water about 15 minutes for Large eggs.  (Adjust the time up or down by about 3 minutes for each size larger or smaller)   To help prevent a dark surface on the yolks, immediately run cold water over the eggs or place them in ice water until completely cooled.  (Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to cook eggs to this stage at altitudes above 10,000 feet.) Related Words  Cooking Methods; Decorating Eggs; Peeling; Storing History Because birds preceded man in the evolutionary chain, both eggs and birds have been around longer than historians. Nobody really knows when the first fowl was domesticated, although Indian history places the date as early as 3200 B.C.  Egyptian and Chinese records show that fowl were laying eggs for man in 1400 B.C.  The dependability of the rooster's early morning call and the regularity with which newly laid eggs appeared probably inspired the Chinese to describe fowl as "the domestic animal who knows time." It is believed that Columbus' ships carried the first of the chickens related to those now in egg production to this country. These strains originated in Asia.