soup with egg on top

[SSSandy]

When I was in Hungary on holiday once I had vegetable soup with an egg on top. I'd like to do that for dd but not sure how, do you just crack an egg on top of a bowl of hot soup, or is it just the yoke? Would it be sufficiently cooked for a child to eat? Or are they poached first and then slid onto the soup? Anyone know?

My guess is that they are poached either in the soup or more likely seperately and then added.

you can poach eggs in a clear soup - one of DH's favourite comfort foods is Knorr chicken noodle soup with an egg poached in it - took me a while to get the hang of it but it's not really hard.
You bring the water to the boil, add the soup mix and then crack the egg in so it poaches while you simmer for the 5min directed on the packet. I always get stray floaty bits but DH is usually so overwhelmed I've made it for him that he doesn't mind!

OK THANK YOU Mrs. B! That's the kind of thing. So I just bring the soup back to the boil and simmer it for 5 minutes with the egg on top in the pot. Do you use just the yoke or the whole egg?

I use the whole egg.
NB 5min gives you a firmly set yolk - if you want it softer or runny, just slip the egg in for the last 3 or 2min (respectively) of the simmering time.

Great, I'll go for the runny one. We'll have it for lunch. Off to get the victim of my culinary experiments.