Puree of Cucumbers

Ingredients

• six nice cucumbers
• one ounce of butter
• two ounces of flour
• a pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Peel and slice cucumbers, remove seeds, and parboil.

2. 2

   Drain and stir in butter until thickened.

3. 3

   Add flour, salt, pepper, and sugar.

4. 4

   Dilute with milk, boil, then strain and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

six nice cucumbers. Re- move the seeds ^d cut in slices. Parboil, drain, and put in a saucepan with one ounce of butter, and stir on the fire until thickened. Add two ounces of flour, kneaded in butter, salt, white pepper, and a little sugar. Dilute with a pint of milk

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