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OCTOBER 27, 2009 10:14AM

Vintage Recipe Cards: Baked Eggplant a la Grecque

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Further adventures in really bad food photography from the 1970's!

  baked_eggplant

Ingredients

3 O-bone lamb chops
2 small eggplant
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons finely chopped green pepper
2 tablespoons finely chopped pimento
1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate
1/2 teaspoon salt

 Directions

Broil lamb chops; remove meat from bone and dice. Cut eggplant lengthwise and cook in 2 quarts boiling water for 8 minutes. Remove from water; carefully scoop out pulp, leaving a 1/2 inch thick shell. Chop pulp and add onions, green pepper, pimento, MSG, salt and diced meat. Fill eggplant shells with mixture and place in a lightly greased baking plan. Bake in 350° oven for 1 hour.

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 2 hours

Approximate calories per serving:220

Suggested Menu

Baked Eggplant a la Grecque
Cucumber Salad
Melon Balls with Mint

 


Recipe & Photograph courtesy of Curtin Publications, Inc., New York, NY ©1973

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WHY do I keep COMING HERE?!?

(thumbified for MSG and pimentos. ::shudder::)
I realize pimento is only pickled peppers but that and MSG make this recipe soooooo retro. the images aren't too scary...more dull and crinkly paper napkin boring. recipes rarely ask for pimento anymore. and MSG is a nono. otherwise this is a basic good flavor combo. I'd throw it into a processor instead of the little dicey diceys...add some sauted breadcrumbs on top.
This is exactly why I hated eggplant as a kid!!!! Yikes.
I was personally really pleased to see the MSG on the list of ingredients...
baked eggplant a la YAK.
That would definitely control my weight because I'd be going hungry!
Feeling a bit queasy this morning, I should have known better than to click on any title with the word "eggplant" in it.

But pimentos and MSG too? Bonus points!
Ah, yes, the brown food groups of my youth.
What the HELL is "monosodium glutamate???"

*Curls up in small ball of terror*
For the modern woman of the 70's. How very special those old cookbooks were, burning in the firepit behind the house.
Actually, this might not be half bad if you ROASTED the eggplant (rather than boil), omit the MSG, and throw in some crumbled feta and fresh mint. Just sayin'. But it should not need an additional HOUR in the oven, for crying out loud. Just bake till bubbly.
Omigod, nooooooo. That is really... wow. Mushy. Slimy. Horrifying. I like how the cook had to quickly remove her pretty scarf and park it under the condiment rack so she could run away and barf. At least, that's what I'm imagining happened here. Yay for MSG, though!
this is a horror story...just in time for Halloween! xox
Working in Jamaica, my ass.
Oh good lord - I had to look up the definition of "à la grecque"...that's how uncultured I am....
Every time I see one of these cards, my eyes slide off the "food" and start looking around the table for something...recognizable.
I think my mom still has a bottle of MSG on her spice rack left from trying to poison us with something like this when I was a kid. She's probably saving it up for when the grandkids come to visit.
Maybe the shock factor is wearing off for me, or maybe you've just worn me down, or maybe I'm just hungry, because I think this one has some potential with about 20 or so tweeks. Scary stuff!

I've never seen MSG as an ingredient in a recipe. I thought it was just some mysterious food stuff that Chinese restaurants swore they never used in their food.
I have to agree with Jodi. I literally followed Jodi's road map to get here. I had to stop on the way to eat a morsel or two because these recipes and photos drive me wild every time. Every time. :)

Hope
You know, I actually make something kind of like this. No peppers or MSG, but I do stuff eggplant halves with a mix of mushrooms, onions, lamb sausage and feta. Bake it all up, and it's pretty good.
Next week could you please, please, please do one on pumpkin guts? I've got, like, thirty pounds of the stuff and judging from this... you've gotta have a recipe card for raw pumpkin guts.

And napalm.

Oh puhleeeeeeeaaazzzze?
Looks great, sounds delicious.
I think it was supposed to be Baked Eggplant al la Grotesque. I don't know... I don't really mind the MSG so much, except that every time I see it on a recipe I check my voice mail. (I'm easily confused.)

The fact that someone would even suggest using a sacred meat such as lamb in this concoction is beyond my capacity for forgiveness.

I'd dig to have a pair of pants made out of that green print material though.