After your hominy is boiled and cold, mash and season with pepper and salt; have some lard hot in a pan, into which put your hominy. Cover it for five minutes, then stir it well, and cover again, and let it fry a light brown. Fried hominy is very good for breakfast.
TO FRY EGG PLANT.
Pare and let them lie ten or fifteen minutes in salt and water, to take away the bitter taste; wipe them perfectly dry; have ready cracker rolled fine, and seasoned with pepper and salt; dip each piece in the yolk of an egg beaten, then in the rolled cracker, and fry in hot lard.
TO STEW EGG PLANT.
Cut in half with the skin on, then soak in vinegar to extract the bitter taste, say half an hour, then boil till quite tender; scrape out the pulp and fill them with bread crumbs, butter, cayenne pepper and salt; lay them open in your bake pan with a little water in the bottom, put them in the oven and baste them often so that they will not be dry; rub a little flour and butter together for the gravy.
ANOTHER WAY.
Prepare as above, and mix with pepper, salt, butter, and bread crumbs; fry in sweet oil.
TO STEW TOMATOES.
Take off the skins by pouring boiling water over them; then stew them with butter, pepper and salt; put in a little soda to correct the acidity; pour in some cream, and stew for a few minutes longer. Some persons prefer them without cream, and then it is not necessary to use the soda.