[Sca-cooks] eggplant bitterness was Cooking Turnips

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I can't stand either eggplant nor grapefruit, which is too bad because there's a nice tree with pink grapefruit growing at our house and I haven't got any use for it.  Maybe we'll candy its peel for holiday gifting, as long as I don't have to eat it.

Selene Colfox

Bonne de Traquair wrote:

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> At last!  Someone on my side of the kitchen when it comes to eggplant!  I have heard of and tried many ways of getting rid of the bitterness--nothing works. I have tried many varieties of eggplant that I am advised aren't as bitter as regular eggplant--oh yes they are!
> You don't, by any chance, despise grapefruit as well?
> Bonne
>  "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote: when cooking
> eggplant, I like to remove the bitterness by salting the raw slices
> until a lot of the bitter juices have been exuded, then gently fry,
> broil, or grill them, and then proceed with whatever the recipe calls
> for. Then I bury them in a steel-reinforced concrete bunker and eat
> something else, in order to be absolutely sure to avoid the last
> traces of the nasty, bitter flavor....Adamantius