Fried Eggplant - American Recipe

Fried Eggplant

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Vegetable-knife, Bowl, Dover beater, Plate, Frying-pan, Long-handled fork, Colander with paper

Simple fried eggplant as prepared in the American home kitchen of the 1920s.

Ingredients

• 1 eggplant
• 1 egg
• Bread crumbs
• Lard or similar fat

Method

1. Peel — the eggplant and cut it into slices a quarter inch thick.
2. Soak — the slices for several hours in cold salt water.
3. Drain — off the water and wipe the pieces of eggplant dry on a clean towel.
4. Beat — the egg and dip the pieces of eggplant first in the beaten egg and then in the bread crumbs, coating the whole surface of the slices with each.
5. Melt — the fat in a frying-pan, and when it begins to smoke fry the slices of eggplant, browning them on both sides.
6. Drain — the slices on soft paper in a colander.

Tags: eggplant, egg, bread · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)