The best dressing is about three parts olive oil and one part vinegar, with a little pepper and salt, poured over the cucumbers just before serving.
Instead of the hereditary Cucumber Salad, have young cucumbersquartered lengthwise, not sliced.
Sometimes tomatoes and cucumbers are served here in this, although they more properly belong, the cucumbers with the fish; and the tomatoes with a mayonnaise among the cold entrees.
Cucumbers allowed to stand in dressing for any length of time become rubbery and indigestible.
Cucumbers prepared in this way are much more delicious, because the knife cuts through most of the seeds.
A rich mayonnaise is made, and peas, cut up cucumbers and string beans stirred through it.
Spray with kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap; or if infesting cucumbers or tomatoes, fumigate over night with hydrocyanic acid gas, using 1 oz.
The cucumbers planted last month will be ready now for setting in the hotbeds, and a winter crop forced.
In greenhouses, the white-fly on cucumbers and tomatoes may be killed by overnight fumigation with 1 oz.
Good cucumbersare sometimes grown in hills surrounding a barrel in which manure is placed to be leached out by successive waterings.
A few cauliflowers may be tried and cucumbers planted in pots for the hotbeds next month.
For the earliest cucumbers and melons, seeds are planted in frames.
The striped beetle is an inveterate pest on cucumbers and squashes (see page 201).
Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and pumpkin are vegetables whose "fleshy fruit" surround the seed but are eaten as vegetables instead of as fruit.
Otherways you may add Cucumbers in quarters either pickled or fresh, and some pickled capers; or boil the cucumbers by themselves, and put them in beaten butter, and sweet herbs chopped small.
Arrange the cucumbers on the prepared lettuce and serve with sour cream dressing.
Cut a slice off the cucumbers lengthwise, scoop them out, fill with boiled lobster meat.
For those who cannot eat raw cucumbers a very nice salad is made by peeling and then boiling until tender, the cucumbers.
Or, surround with a circle of choppedcucumbers seasoned with French dressing.
In the hot climates of the Orient, cucumbers and melons were classed among earth's choicest productions; and a resort ever grateful in the heat of the day was "a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
Pare large cucumbers and cut them into thin slices; cut each slice round and round so as to form a long, narrow curling strip.
When cold turn from the mould and fill the centre with diced cucumbers and sliced radishes dressed with French dressing.
Fill in the centre of the ring with diced cucumbers and sliced radishes, mixed with cream dressing.
Use enough dressing to moisten the cucumbers thoroughly.
Besides, cucumbersdo not like dry heat, even if the soil be kept moist by irrigation.
Thicken the gravy with a teaspoonful of cornstarch rubbed smooth in a little cold water and pour around the cucumbers when serving.
Bake until the cucumbers are tender, basting frequently, and adding more stock if required.
Sprinkle one half cup of salt through the sliced cucumbers and stand in cool place two or three hours, then drain from the salt.
Sliced cucumbers and onion, or sliced tomatoes with shredded lettuce or chopped celery, and the typical spring salad of shredded lettuce, sliced young onions and sliced radishes are all liked.
Place on the ice and shred with cold boiled fish, or shell fish or with a mixture of cold, cooked and diced potatoes, green peas or beans and sliced cucumbers or celery.
Use the fresh, sliced cucumbers or cucumber pickles chopped fine.
Spread the cucumbers in the jar in layers sprinkling the seeds over them and spreading with part of the olive oil repeating the layers until the jar is filled, then cover all with cold, strained vinegar.
The cucumbers would not run, and more blossoms fell off than seemed desirable.
But I should like to try it again: I shall never be quite satisfied till I have made peas and cucumbers profitable.
If you leave out tomatoes and cucumbers and strawberries, you deprive your body of the salts and vitamins which are essential.
Confronted with grape-fruit and cream at the same meal, or oranges and milk, or cucumbers and milk, they eat under protest, in consternation over the disastrous results that are sure to follow.
The young lad soon reappeared with a great white pitcher filled with excellent kvas, a huge hunch of wheaten bread, and a dozen salted cucumbers in a wooden bowl.
Yes; you see, the cucumbers ought not to suffer on account of our enmity.
The cucumbers lay there half-dead and gasped for breath; some of the leaves were burnt, and others were drooping.
In many cases such articles are appetizing and refreshing; such are lettuce, celery, muskmelons, cucumbers and many soups and desserts.
Cucumbers and tomatoes are laid in water before they are peeled instead of afterward.
Thick pieces should be cut from the ends and sides of cucumbers as the skin contains unwholesome juices.
Usually cucumbers are parboiled in water and then finished in broth; most often after being parboiled they are stuffed with forcemeat and then finished in broth.
Greens, lettuce, and cucumbers should be gathered before the dew is off in the morning, and put into fresh water.
Cucumbers should be gathered while dew is yet on them, and put immediately into water.
We have our meals brought to us by Antosha, who tries to comfort us with extra large pickled cucumbers and portions of sour cream.
Add a tablespoonful of olives, small cucumbers and capers chopped very fine and a few drops of onion juice.
Stuff thecucumbers with this dressing, put the halves together, fasten with wooden toothpicks or tie with string.
Peel and core a tart apple, chop fine with a small pickled gherkin, take from this a good tablespoonful for the sauce and put one side, then add the rest to the soft part of the cucumbers in the saucepan.
One quart each of tiny whole cucumbers, large cucumbers sliced, green tomatoes sliced and small button onions, one large cauliflower divided into flowerettes, and four green peppers cut fine.
Place thecucumbers carefully on a platter and pour the sauce around them.
Place the cucumbersin a shallow vegetable dish, remove the strings and pour the sauce around them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cucumbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
