On Sun 22 Mar 2009 09:50:56p, Goomba told us...

> Todd wrote:
>
>> My latest endeavor was to peal it, salt it for an hour, rinse
>> the salt off, and plop it into hot olive oil. You could watch
>> the oil disappear as the eggplant slices sucked every bit of it up.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> yowsa.
> Ok... salt if you want but NOT for a freakin' hour! I've never known
> anyone to rinse it but rather pat it dry of any extruded moisture and
> the salt.
> Then dip in eggwash and then flour before frying. That's how my dad did
> his.....
> Give that a try
> Goomba
>

That's how my mom made hers, too, Goomba. She often also added a bit of
cornmeal to the flour.;

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Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.