It may be parboiled for five minutes before frying; or, prepare according to directions given for Fried eggplant.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
These included the best qualities of Yellow Nansemond sweet potatoes, mammoth melons of all varieties, eggplant, sorghum and syrup cane, broom-corn, tobacco, grapes, cotton, peanuts, and many other things, some of which do not attain to so high a degree of excellence elsewhere farther north than the Carolinas.
"Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist"
E. L. Lomax
You must be thinking of eggplant!
"Raggedy Ann Stories"
Johnny Gruelle