Stuffed Cucumbers

Ingredients

• 6 small cucumbers
• 1 tablespoonful vinegar
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• Yi pint of white broth
• 3 thin slices of pork
• Y, a breast of chicken
• 1 bay leaf
• 12 whole peppers

Method

1. 1

   Peel cucumbers, scoop out insides.

2. 2

   Boil in water with vinegar and salt for 6 minutes.

3. 3

   Prepare chicken forcemeat, fill cucumbers, place on pork in a pan, season, and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 335. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

6 small cucumbers into quarters, remove the seedy part, and place them with boiling water in a saucepan over the flre, add Ys tablespoonful salt, and boil till tender, then drain and plunge them into cold water, remove and drain again. In the meantime melt 1 tablespoonful butter in a saucepan, add Ys tablespoonful flour, Ys bay leaf, 12 whole peppers, stir and cook 2 minutes, add 1 cupful hot milk, Ys even teaspoonful salt, Y4 even teaspoonful pepper and the same of nutmeg, 1 gill of mushroom liquor, cook 5 minutes, strain the sauce in a clean sauce- pan, add the cucumbers, let them simmer a few minutes over the fire ; then serve. Caenmber, Stnffed. — Peel 6 small cucumbers, cut off the ends, scoop out the inside with a vegetable cutter, place the cucum- 603 VEGETABLES. bers in a saucepan, oover with boiling water, add 1 tableepoonfol vinegar and 1 teaspoonful salt, cook 6 minntes, then drain, and pat them in cold water. Prepare a chicken forcemeat from Y, a breast of chicken ; dry the cucumbers and fill the inside with the foroe- meat, lay 3 thin slices of pork in a round pan, put the cucumbers on top the pork, sprinkle over 1 teaspoonful salt, Y4 teaspoonful pepper, add Yi pint of white broth, cover with buttered paper, and bake in a medium-hot oven from 20 to 25 minutes. In the mean- time fry in Ys ounce butter 1 fine-chopped onion, add 1 bay leaf

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