Old-Fashioned Cucumber Salad
Preparation and cooking time: 10 minutes plus 1 hour
This is my mother's recipe, as made by her mother.... Probably German in origin.
Ingredients:
- 3 cucumbers, 600gr, 21oz
- 1 tbs salt
- 2 tbs sugar, 25gr, .88oz
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar, 60gr, 2.1oz
- 1 tbs fresh chives, snipped
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions:
- Peel cucumber and thinly slice, using a box slicer, food processor or mandolin.
- Put 1/3 of the cukes in a deep bowl, sprinkle 1/3 salt.
- Repeat twice.
- Place a small plate or bowl, that will rest directly on the cucumbers, on top. Add a weight of some sort to add pressure to the cukes, and let sit for an hour.
- Drain, rinse lightly and squeeze dry.
- Add remaining ingredients, mix well. Serve. This gets better the next day.
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| Nutrition Information Salad with Dressing Info is for entire recipe Calories: 183 Total Carbohydrates: 39 Dietary Fiber: 4.2 Total Fat: 1 Saturated Fat: .07 Cholesterol: 0 Protein: 6.6 Calcium: 88 Sodium: 521 '---' means I don't have the info |
I didn't note serving size but, for me, it would be between 4 and 6 servings.
The salt is mostly rinsed off.
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements in this color are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
