The sun., 1901-06-30
ABOUT THE CUCUMBER,
HARDEST WORKED or vEGKTARIEs
AND SOMETIMES THE BEST.

| some OF tne Odu WAys OF SERVING IL.
The cucumber is the hardest work eckmrm
Der OF tho vegetable kingdom. At least 4,
Is II we may Judge by the variety Of It's uses
| From America to Asia Minor It appears a,
| an article Of food on dinner tables and supper
| tables. all over the civilised world But
| that does not exhaust Its possibilities by any
means In Egypt 1t Is made to ySsld apleasan,
| cooling drink by ingenious treatment
| hole Is cut In the cucumber. the pulp is broken
| and stirred with q stick. and the hole closed
with wax The cucumber, still fastened
| to its stem. Is lowered Into plt After a
few days tho juice ferments. and the Esyp.
| tian drawing It on has liquor exartlysuited
| to his taste.
When my lady wishes to ailay ssnburn or
to soften and whiten her skin. % general
principles she calls for cucumber soap or
cucumber cream. The very name make,
| her think that the preparation must be harm
less as we'll as EN- cacious and the Beal Brum-
| mels Of to-day use cucumber pomade with tie
same sense Of security.
| Then pickles-what IL moro universally
nopular than the pickle. and what new
| tangled invention can bear comparison with
| the old-fashioned time-honored cuamber
pickle! From the days Of kits and pima
| fores when boys and girls ate huge penny
pickle with surreptittous bites. to the days
| OF formal dinners, when baby cucumbers
appear a. gherkins. what relish sharpens
hunger like a pickle'
Yet the cucumber In its natural state Is at
| once the temptation and the menace OF the
eating world. Plump, green. and inviting as
| IL Is, doctors who have delicate digestions in
charge taboo IT, Tho average man eats u
oheerfuly, but with sneakine fear OF conse-
auences Mental science should turn It's at
tention to cucumbers for while II II shouts
convince the universal mind that c'fcumbers
were in reality disestibe and could issue
guarantee with every cucumber sold. the di.
sestiye woe Of humanity would be wonder
fully lightened.
| In the meantime. household scientists have
advanced TO the rescue. Nothing Is beyond
them. They have reduced the most Illogical
| of foods 10 their principles They have dis
| covered the innermost secrets OF the squash
and the potato and all their kith and Kin.
With persistent diligence they have tabu-
lated foods according to their nutritive value
and by following these tables the poores'
woman In the slums can learn how to keep
home happy. and her husband well fed on 10
| cents day. 49,,
| list They are among the ornaments. They
represent the accessories, the poetry OF dies
ss ss,. Seas have % Ie.sened the ancient prestige Of
the cucumber they show how 1t can be- made
digest ible at least;
ia the first OF the modern rules for the hygieni9
housekeeper. 1t should be GOOD green ana
Arm TO the touch Remove thinly skins from
Is SViim Important because the Sueum6er contains
a bitter principle and much OF i Ies near the
skin and the stem end. Not q trace OF green
be tssn .SoSd Tsid ss g into
wafer thin and put into fslt snd shUs Tsi tbat he
they Will viii b. ss nsSSy IS celery week old
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the vines, Drsiped and oovsred wtth r. crushed Hlns
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have laid up TOR themselves indigestion by
| indulging in the Juicy cucurnber, Ia an unre-
veSesabiss. cucumbers could undoubtedly
carry OF the honors for the most mischief
"'he How W Tiberius % liked his eucumbers. Pny
mse' use modern taste prefers them raw. For
state occsilSns OF when sw 1ew s se served
in more unusual ways. Old ones; too large
and tough t. be good raw, are delicious boiled.
nss snsus or GnF Ss two cut rse S%S
of three or four inches. hslye them and re.
move the seeds. Put them ipto boiling
,snde, ws,f,I serve serve in hot vegetable dish and II
desired desired put melted butter over them. After
bSqs Be %ssaed 4 Ss.rss End seasoned
K way Of preparing boiled cucumbers.
which can be made TO tempt the a. sppeti,o p piv
@. 20 ,ne mare e them as before and cut them into
small regular pieces. put them IN BAKING
pan cover with boiling water and COOK gent,y
out with a strainer, arranged on slices Of
toast and served with cream sauce
"a sn eXcelent Introduction for a hearty
meal Cucumbers stirred with onions are
variation priced by those who like onions.
cucumbers Tor a luncheon or for cool sup
per on hot night is 70 pare them az usual;
Then instead OF icins them pare then ths% r01nd
not not be used The cucumber ribbons heaped
| into a dish and served with French dressing
| are as pretty TO look at as they are soou
| 10 eat , l.. -,
| rs numerous as blackberries In August
! There is cucumber salad plain, cucumber salad
with tiny young onions sliced with II. Gu
| cumbers with lettuce, cucumbers with let
| tuca and tomatoes, cucumbers with Just
| tomatoes and cucumbers In SO many other
| salad combinations that they are harder
TO compute than an example In permuta-
| tions and combinations, French dressing
| or mayonnaise dressing Is equally good
according to the taste OF the individual.
| Cucumbers cut into cubes half an inch square.
with slice tomatoes on lettuce leaves coy-
| cred with mayonnase dressing are extremely
| good to eat and make color combination
which any wel-regulated painter could
hVt cahseaRRbers, heiR fbe es apples. banana, and egg
| plant, are sometimes fried for. this they
| should be cut lengthwiso into slices, one
third Of an inch thick dried between towels
they should be dipped into crumbs into egg,
into crumbs again, fried In deep fat AMI
| drained .
| Stuffed cuoumhers arc quite the most
| ola horn ia dish that can be made OF this vege-
| table The Cucumbers are cut ln hali cross
wiso and the seeds removed The halves are
then soaked In cold water for haIl an hour
and nlled with forcement. Next they are
placed upright on trlyet IN saucepan
| bnif surrounded with white stock and cooked
| for forty minutes lheN are SorNeu on toast
| with Pechamel sauce - A.
| In the summer months the Wise house,
| kenper seeks for tho things that will please
| the eve as well as tho palate In this search
| tho cucumber meets definite need when
| ,,nr,nU who knows what sho Is about orders
| ~ .,ahi. , ,rrprliing Civ Shc tnkes n fhs