Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Food and Entertaining: [header] How to pickle eggplant [title] Choose your eggplant. [title] Prepare the eggplant. [substeps] Pick eggplant that is at its peak freshness.

Ending1: Freezing eggplants if you plan to pickle them is actually a matter of having it chill, not chilling it. The eggplant should be fresh, well-drained, and have fleshy parts that are firm. Ending2: Don't overcook, as it will lose its freshness and become squishy and dry in the current season. When the eggplant is soft, it is ready to be sliced. Ending3: Pickling will preserve the vegetable at its prime crispness. A fresh eggplant is a shiny, deep purple. Ending4: Swollen and willy eggplants are less efficient at absorbing moisture. This is because they can begin to rot quickly.

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