Stewed Cucumbers

Ingredients

• 6 lbs. cucumbers
• 2 tablespoonsful flour
• \ oz. onion
• 2 oz. butter
• i^ pint stock
• 1 gill wine vinegar
• 2 oz. sugar
• A pinch of pepper.

Method

1. 1

   Peel cucumbers, cut lengthwise, remove seeds, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and vinegar, and stand for an hour.

2. 2

   Boil in stock till tender with juice from cucumbers, vinegar, and onion.

3. 3

   Brown butter with flour and sugar, add cucumber stock, boil, then add cucumbers and simmer for 10 minutes.

4. 4

   Thicken with potato flour mixed in water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from German cookery for the English kitchen (1906) by Ella Oswald, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Cucumbers.) For 6 Persons. Time of Preparation : 2 J hours. 6 lbs. cucumbers. j 2 tablespoonsful flour. \ oz. onion. I i tablespoonful salt. 2 oz. butter. i teaspoonful potato flour, i^ pint stock. \ gill wine vinegar. 2 oz. sugar. A pinch of pepper. Peel the cucumbers and cut into pieces lengthwise, removing all seeds. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and a little vinegar, and stand in a cool place, covered over, for one hour. Then boil in the stock till tender, with the juice that has come from them while standing, a little vinegar and the onion. Melt the butter in a saucepan and brown it with the flour and a little sugar, add the cucumber stock and boil this sauce well. Then put in the cucumber and simmer for another 10 minutes. Finally stir the potato flour smoothly in a little water and add to the sauce to thicken it, flavouring with sugar and vinegar to taste. Oefdllte Gurkeit (Stuffed Cucumbers.) For 6 Persons. Time of Preparation : 3 hours. I oz. breadcrumbs. 4 lbs. cucumbers. f lb. pork. Other ingredients as in preceding recipe. Peel the cucumbers, cut them in halves, remove the seeds, and leave them to stand for an hour, covered, sprinkled over with pepper, salt and vinegar. Then parboil them carefully. With the finely-chopped pork, the breadcrumbs, an egg and salt make mincemeat and fill the cavities of the cucumbers with it. Fit the halves together again, tie them together and stew as in last recipe, preparing the sauce in the same manner. 126 Gemiise. Rote Rilben. (Beetroot.) For 6 Persons. 4 lbs. beetroot. 2 oz. butter. I gill stock. 1 gill wine vinegar

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