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Eggplant Caviar

photo taken by Indiana Public Media, on December 23, 2009, CC licensing

Ingredients:
- 4 eggplants [(about 2 lb./1kg.) will make
about 1 lb. 6 oz./650 gr. Of Aubergine Caviar]
- 1 oz./30 gr. Onion, finely chopped
- 1/3 teaspoon salt
- 1 fluid oz./30 ml. vegetable oil
- 2 fluid oz./60 ml. vinegar

Preparation:
Preheat the broiler.

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Drunken Plums

photo taken by hanspetermeyer, on October 7, 2012, CC licensing

Here is a perfect summer dessert. Throughout the Balkans and eastern Hungary, by late summer plums have grown fat, dark and ripe, and grapes are just about ready to pick. This dish marries together fresh plums, plum brandy, and raisins (last season's grapes).

Ingredients:

- 2 lb./1 kg. ripe plums

- 4 oz./125 gr. brown sugar

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Chicken Fat

photo taken by In Praise of Sardines, on December 7, 2005, CC licensing

Preparation:
To prepare two of our three inter-related classic recipes, you must start with perfect Chicken Fat.

Check the fat to see that nothing green is in it (mine was perfect, and fresh - no odor at all). I managed to put together a pound of chicken fat for this.

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