Aubergine swindle

I think it's worthwhile being proven wrong, so it's with great delight that I learned that my sage advice about applying sliced salt to Aubergine, to draw out the bitter juices, is codswallop. In the Oxford Campanion to Food, Alan Davidson tells us that modern varieties of Aubergine have no bitter juices to draw out.

Aubergines are now officially an instaneous vegetable. Shame actually, I liked the ritual.

Comments

[Fee and Chris]

Wonder what else the modern varieties lost along with their bitter juices? Maybe worth cultivating the older varieties for comparison.

[np]

Thatis a very good point