Escalloped Egg Plant
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Escalloped Egg Plant

Ingredients

  • 2 cup cubed eggplant
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoon butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 3 tablespoon flour
  • 1 1/2 cup milk

Directions

  1. Remove the skin from the egg-plant, and cut into slices a quarter of an inch thick.
  2. Sprinkle the slices with salt, pile one above the other, and place a weight on the top to extract the juice.
  3. Allow to stand one hour.
  4. Wash off, and cut into quarter of an inch cubes.
  5. Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and pepper.
  6. Mix well, gradually add the milk and cook two minutes.
  7. Add the egg-plant and pour the whole mixture into a buttered baking dish.
  8. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Side

Ingredients: eggplant, salt, butter, pepper, flour, milk

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, knife, oven, stove

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