[Sca-cooks] Re-send of Bright Hills recipes

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/16/01 5:06:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

<< 1 Oriental Eggplant, halved crosswise, then quartered lengthwise >>

Was there a reason for the substitute of oriental eggplant for regular
eggplant in this recipe or, was it merely a matter of expediency? So far as I
know the regular black eggplants or the small  egg shaped white ones are a
close equivalent to those available in the middle ages in the Mideast.

Ras