Cucumber Samhal

Ingredients

• three or four good tablespoonfuls of cucumber
• a tablespoonful each of finely minced chives
• a tablespoonful each of parsley
• a tablespoonful each of minced chillies
• a dessert-spoonful of vinegar
• a spoonful of oil
• salt
• black pepper
• a dust of caster sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix cucumber cut into Julienne shreds with chives, parsley, and minced chillies.

2. 2

   Dissolve caster sugar in vinegar, stir in oil, and season with salt and black pepper.

3. 3

   Strew over the cucumber mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Breakfast and Lunch Dishes (1904) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cucumber Samhal is made by mixing three or four good tablespoonfuls of cucumber cut into Julienne shreds with a tablespoonful each of finely minced chives (or green sj)ring onions), parsley, and minced chillies ; dissolve a dust of caster sugar in a dessert- spoonful of vinegar, stir in a sj)oonful of oil, with salt and black pepper

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