Fried Cucumber

Ingredients

• 2 cucumbers
• 2 oz. of butter
• a teaspoonful of castor sugar
• vinegar
• cayenne
• a peeled onion

Method

1. 1

   Peel 2 cucumbers, cut them into sections about 1.5 in. in length, and divide each piece in two.

2. 2

   Take out the centre part of each, sprinkle over with salt, and let stand for about 1 hour.

3. 3

   Wash well, then cook with butter, a little stock, castor sugar, vinegar, cayenne, and a peeled onion.

4. 4

   A half hour of cooking is sufficient.

5. 5

   Drain the cucumbers on a cloth, and when ready to serve dip each in frying batter and fry in hot fat to a golden brown.

6. 6

   Take up, drain, sprinkle with salt, dish up, garnish with parsley, and serve with tomato sauce, separately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Cucumber. Peel 2 cucumbers, cut them into sections about i £ in. in length, and divide each piece in two. Take out the centre part of each, sprinkle over with salt, and let stand for about i hour. Wash well, then cook with 2 oz. of butter, a little stock, a teaspoonful of castor sugar, vinegar, cayenne, and a peeled onion

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