Name: Fried Egg-Plant
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 middling size; 1 quarter of an inch thick; 1 teaspoonful of salt in it; 1 beaten egg; 1 napkin; 1 light brown; 10 minutes

Original Recipe

Take fresh, purple egg-plants of a middling size; cut them in slices a quarter of an inch thick, and soak them for half an hour in cold water, with a teaspoonful of salt in it. Have ready some cracker or bread crumbs and one beaten egg; drain off the water from the slices, lay them on a napkin, dip them in the crumbs and then in the egg, put another coat of crumbs on them and fry them in butter to a light brown. The frying pan must be hot before the slices are put in--they will fry in ten minutes. You may pare them before you put them into the frying pan, or you may pull off the skins when you take them up. You must not remove them from the water until you are ready to cook them, as the air will turn them black.

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1

Take fresh, purple egg-plants of a middling size; cut them in slices a quarter of an inch thick, and soak them for half an hour in cold water, with a teaspoonful of salt in it.
2

Have ready some cracker or bread crumbs and one beaten egg; drain off the water from the slices, lay them on a napkin, dip them in the crumbs and then in the egg, put another coat of crumbs on them and fry them in butter to a light brown.
3

The frying pan must be hot before the slices are put in--they will fry in ten minutes.
4

You may pare them before you put them into the frying pan, or you may pull off the skins when you take them up.
5

You must not remove them from the water until you are ready to cook them, as the air will turn them black.

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