The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-08
and seasoned with butter, salt and

and seasoned with butter, salt and
pepper if desired.
A way of preparing boiled cucum-
bers, which can be made to tempt the
appetite of the chronic dyspeptic with
impunity, is to pare them as before
and cut them into small regular pieces,
put them in a baking pan, cover with
boiling water and cook gently for
twenty minutes. They can be taken
out with strainer, arranged on slices
of toast and served with cream
sauce.
Cucumber soup, with its delicate
flavor, is an excellent introduction for
a hearty meal. Cucumbers stirred
with onions are a variation priced by
those who like onions. A particular
ly artistic way of preparing cucum-
bers for luncheon or for cool sup
per on hot night is to pare them as
usual. Then, instead of slicing them,
pare them round and round to the
soft inside, which must not be used.
The cucumber ribbons heaped into
dish and served with French dressing
are as pretty to look at as they are
good to eat.
The recipes for cucumbers in salad
are as numerous as blackberries in
August. There is cucumber salad
plain, cucumber salad with tiny young
onions sliced with it, cucumbers with
lettuce, cucumbers with lettuce and
tomatoes, cucumbers with just toma-
toes and cucumbers in so many other
salad combinations that they are
harder to compute than an example
in permutations and combinations.
French dressing or mayonnaise Dress
ing is equally good, according to the
taste of the individual. Cucumbers
cut into cubes half an inch square,
with sliced tomatoes on lettuce leaves
covered with mayonnaise dressing are
extremely good to eat, and make
color combination which any we'll
regulated painter could not help adj
miring.
Cucumber, like apples, bananas and
egg plant, are sometimes fried !; for
this they should be cut lengthwise
into slices, one-third of an inch thick,
dried between towels and sprinkled
with salt and pepper. Then they
should be dipped into crumbs, into
egg, into crumbs again, fried in deep
fat and drained.
Stuffed cucumbers are quite the
most elaborate dish that can be made
of this vegetable. The cucumbers
are cut in half crosswise and the seeds
removed. The halves are then soak
ed in cold water for half an hour and
filled with forcemeat. Next they are
placed upright on trivet in sauce-
pan, half surrounded with white stock
and cooked for forty minutes. They
are served on toast with Becamel
sauce.
In the summer months the wise
housekeeper seeks for the things that
will please the eye as well as the pal
ate. In this search the cucumber
meets definite need. When the
mercury is jumping up toward ninety
the woman who know what she is
about orders her table accordingly.
She takes off the thick pad and warm
tableclock, and serves her luncheon
on the shining bare table, set with
little doilies. She makes Rem
brandt combination with her iced tea
and slices of lemon her hot dishes
are croquettes on a mat of tender
green peas and creamed potato done
to a turn. A side dish of Neufchatel
cheese in a little cake is acceptable on
a hot day, and cucumbers in a green
dish complete most delicious bill of
fare. A fitting dessert for this color
luncheon is sliced oranges with yell
low sponge cake.
The cucumber on occasion can be
useful as well as ornamental. The
farmer finds it profitable to raise. 1t
needs heat, light and rich soil, but
under these conditions responds
promptly with plenty of fruit. More
than seventy varieties of cucumber
are raised in the United States alone,
and England, India, Egypt and half
dozen other countries besides the
common variety have each their own
special modification of the vegetable.
But it is the manufacturer of pickles
who really coins money out of the Gu
cumber. Millions of cucumbers are
bottled and sold every year, and while
the big pickles, the middling-sized
pickles and the little pickles slide
down the epicure's throat, the pennies
slip into the manufacturers pocket,
and he is quite ready to adopt Izaak
Walton's estimate of the strawberry,
and say of the cucumber, "God might
have made better vegetable, but He
didn't ."-Mew York SIN.