The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-08
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SOME eAsTRONoMlC HINTS

A Call For Cayenne Pepper-SoakingC Gu
cumbers In Sailed Water.
sit is at this season. said the care
full eater, "that one misses most the red
pepper which until four years ago was
to be found in every New York restau-
rant and hotel. Then, alas, it was ex-
PEELED in favor of a Hungarian condi-
ment which, good as it is in many par
ticulars, is certainly not the same as
red pepper. Yet it CLOVIS triumphantly
now on nearly every restaurant table
The vanquished friend is always missed,
and the absence of the cayenne is espe-
cially lamentable at this time of the
year. The young cabbage, that might
otherwise remain a source of distress,
was rendered easily digestible by the
old red pepper. The same was true OF
cucumbers and the other spring yege-
tables which, with enough red pepper,
were available to persons who otherwise
dared not risk eating them. The recent
substitute has not the same powers. Il
may be delicious in certain sauces and
dressings, but of the cayenne's powers
81 read in a newspaper the other day
an earnest protest against the SO called
barbarity of allowing cucumbers to re-
main in salt and water before they Tere
eaten. / have eaten cucumbers under
great many circumstances, and I think /
regret ever having done so unless the
vegetable had undergone just such a
process as this writer condemned. Now.
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be prepared so that they will do 10
harm even to a person who is least capa
BILE of digesting them readily. II they
are to be eaten in the evening, they
ought to be cut very thin-as thin as a
knife blade-by neon at the latest, and
put into bowl of water that is strongly
sailed. Then the bowl should be kept
in cool place, preferably refrigerator.
It is mistake to put ice into the bowl.
Then the cucumbers by the time they
are to be eaten will be nearly free from
every indigesti5le element. There is no
commensurate loss of flavor, and only
the taste of rawness and crudeness will
be found lacking. Instead of whiting
under such process the cucumbers will
be found crisp and fresh. They are al
ways prepared in this way in the south.
1t is when they are in this condition
that they are most improved by red pep
per. The small cubes into which cucum-
bers are sometimes cut raw are, Of
course, much more i'll need of this treat
ment than the sliced cucumb ers, which,
even when they are cut thick, are never
as large as the cubes.
Another vegetable salad which is
nearly unknown in this country should
be first prepared in this same way. 1t
is made of radishes, which should be
cut into slices and then allowed to soak
for awhile in sailed water. just before
dinner they should be dressed with a
sauce of vinegar and oil, to which a
little onion. the green spring onion,
ought to be added. The radishes should
be cut very thin. AS salad to be
served with fish in the place of cucum-
bers the radishes are delicious if they
are properly prepared. They ought to
be cold. If the onion is not used, a
chopped up green pepper will be found
substitute of zest and flavor. Green
peppers are delicious in any salad, and
when served with lettuce, romaine, to-
mato or escarole they are best cut in
long strips about the thickness of a
match. But to chop them fine is the
best way of using them with a small
salad like the radishes. Only little is
needed.
sit is national objection, or it may
be common to the Anglo-Saxon race,
but it is all the same regrettable, that
the odor of garlic and onion is intolera-
BILE to the average American. 1t de-
prives us of vegetable that may often
be delicately used and produce deli
cious flavor. But it is only necessary to
mention the word onion and that set
ties it. There is one way, however, Of
preparing green peas which is so unique
that the national objection to the onion
ought to be put aside for its sake. The
French are the only people that cook
the young peas in this way, but there
is no reason in the world why they
should retain exclusive possession Of
this along with some of the other rec
ipes which they alone use. They boil
the very young green peas in head of
lettuce. With the peas are placed sew
eral very small onions. The onions
must be very young and very small.
The lettuce is used only for the flavor
and should not be served unless as a
mere background for the peas. Served
with cream and melted butter made in
to sauce they are good enough to dis
sipate the national prejudice against
the onion. New York Sun.
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