Stuffed Eggplant
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Cut eggplants in halves and scoop out the inside, leaving a shell half an inch thick.
Soak 0.25 cup of breadcrumbs in 0.5 cup of stock for ten minutes.
Add cooked chicken, 2 tablespoons of melted shortening, the well-beaten egg, and salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste.
Divide this mixture into the eggplant shells, sprinkle buttered crumbs on top, and place them in a greased pan.
Pour the rest of the stock and the white wine into the pan.
Bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
To make the sauce, put 1 tablespoon of shortening and 1 tablespoon of flour into a saucepan and blend over heat.
Add the sherry and 1 cup of the liquid from the baking pan, and cook for five minutes.
Serve the eggplant on a hot dish with the sauce.
Original recipe, verbatim
Stuffed Eggplant
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 egg
3 small eggplants Salt, pepper, and nutmeg to
}4 cupful breadcrumbs taste
lyi cupfuls stock }4 cupful white wine
yi cupful chopped cooked Criscoed crumbs
chicken or veal 1 tablespoonful flour
1 tablespoonful sherry
Cut eggplants in halves and scoop out inside, leaving shell half inch
thick. Soak >^ cupful breadcrumbs in yi cupful stock ten minutes, then
add cooked chicken, 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco, egg, well beaten,
and seasoning of salt, pepper and nutmeg. Divide this forcemeat into
eggplants, sprinkle Criscoed crumbs on top, set them in greased pan, pour
in rest of stock and white wine and bake half hour in moderate oven.
Serve on hot dish with following sauce.
Put 1 tablespoonful Crisco and 1 tablespoonful flour into saucepan and
blend over fire, add sherry and 1 cupful liauor from pan in which they were
baked, and cook five minutes.
Sufficient for three eggplants.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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