Great Depression Cooking - Eggplant Parmesan

welcome to my kitchen I'm Clara I'm 94 years old today we are making some meals from the Depression [Music] welcome back today we're gonna make eggplant parmesan it clicked parmesan I guess this was your callers and that's what I call us anyway but I don't think it was private John I think it with Romano cheese but tastes the same okay let's go first we're going to slice the eggplant to get it ready for frame I cut this about a quarter of inch thick not too thin not too thick because that Curtis is sooo sick they're not glue solution knife is not two-step try it on her life a flint was cheap so we have a plant during the Depression we ate almost everything but if it was too expensive we had less but we we ate pretty good we had a good meal we grew almost everything I think we ate pretty good during the Depression okay this is ready for fried the licks I put a friend a place dump the oil and put it in the frying pan it seems like a lot of oil but it is there priest I put the heat on me into fright and eggplant and we're going to need them dish gotta wait till the oil gets warm or hot but she did see what it was really a lot of people didn't have what we had because they had to buy the food and it was expensive because we were nobody was working my father was out of work over six years it's gushing we had a garden here we had chickens so we had our meat we had we ate very good early depression now starting to bubble so I'm good that fried eggplant now it's sad a bubble so I'm going to wait and see what happens and I'll turn them over with soon as they get a little red and a big fat man is conductor other bus on her street car so we get it we get on where we were a little it because it was all attended North partial he said spaghetti town and that just a jar bi could serve as a breakfast because he had a real red face all the time that was me two of me but he's insulted me first these are sad you look good yeah when I think about make sure this all the oil and all of them a little has too much oil take a lot of time to put myself or take the rest of the oil out now they're ready to put the salsa I use my mom's recipe now after you fry them you put the sauce on put his cheese done all the ready to eat but I let him sit for a while they tasted but we had dandelion which is free the eggplant which wasn't a gun so the meals and cost hardly anything as something that we see during the Depression it still tastes good you today we are going to make some baked apple I'm pouring them but I don't have the proper tool and a pair chefs are top [Music] before then I have to say oh but something fish me hope there's nothing alive in there

Channel: Great Depression Cooking

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Keywords: Great, Depression, Cooking, granny, Clara, Cannucciari, inexpensive, meals, Chris, Old, Lady, nana, Recipe, Food, delici

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Length: 4min 52sec (292 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2009