119. MOJI CASSEROLE
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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119. MOJI CASSEROLE. Take eggplants, neither very big nor very small, but middling, and open them in the middle and cast them to cook with your salt; and when they are well-cooked, drain them with a cloth which is rough; and then chop them a great deal, and cast them in a frying-pan or kettle and cast in a good deal of oil; and take toasted bread and grate it, cast it there within, and cast in aged grated cheese; and when it is stirred for a good while over the fire, have ground dry coriander, caraway, and pepper, and cloves, and a little ginger, and stir it over the fire; and cast in some eggs, and stir it over the fire until it is hard; and then take a casserole, and cast in a little bit of oil, and place it in [the casserole]; and beat some eggs with pepper, and saffron, and cloves, and some of the same toasted bread that is contained in the casserole, and some of the grated cheese; and make it thick and place it on top in the manner of a facing and put your yolks on it; and coagulate it in the oven or with a cuajadera, which is an iron pot-lid with coals on top, and when it is coagulated, remove it from the fire; and cast on top of it a dish of honey which is very good and your duke's powder . This same casserole can be made from chard or carrots.
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Materials
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eggplant
salt
oil
bread
cheese
coriander
caraway
pepper
cloves
ginger
eggs
seafood
saffron
yolks
honey
podour
chard
pasternaks
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Procedure
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?libre:119>. Accessed on April 17, 2024, 11:49 pm.