To Cook Egg-plant

Ingredients

• Peel it, cut it in slices
• Beat two or three eggs
• dip each slice in rolled cracker
• Have a round pot with boiling hot lard

Method

1. 1

   Peel and slice egg-plant, salt and let sit for 2 hours.

2. 2

   Rinse, dry, dip in beaten eggs, then in cracker crumbs.

3. 3

   Fry in hot lard until cooked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 293. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Cook Egg-plant [Mrs. Taylor's recipe). — Peel it, cut it in slices about half an inch thick; spread salt over each slice, putting one slice on top of each other; let it lie two hours, then wash the salt off of it in cold water, dry it with a towel. Beat two or three eggs, dip the egg-plant in the &^^, then dip each slice in rolled cracker ; have a round pot with boiling hot lard

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