The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-20
TAKE OUT1'HE POISON
HOW cucuMBEHs MAY be MADE
HARMLESS.
II Can Be Done Without Destroying
the Flavor of the Vegetable
will Not Hurt Delicate
Stomachs.

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will Not Hurt Delicate
Stomachs.
The cucumber remains the attraction
and the terror Of the salad, and there
Is no agreement as to the way In which
Il can be served so that 1t will be eaten
ut its best and yet not necessarily be
fatal to health. To persons who cannot
eat them with impunity nothing is more
poisonous than the ordinary cucumbers
of the city markets. They are old and
stale and full Of poison to any but the
strongest stomach. Persons who can
not stand the sight of an ordinary Gu
cumber can with impunity eat fresh
ones Just out of the garden.
It is Just as possible to restore any
hardened city cucumber to freshness
and innocuousness with no loss Of fla
vor, although few persons have the pa
thence to give the salad the necessary
treatment. Restaurant keepers are
unwilling to take SO much time. except,
perhaps, the Germans.
They soak thinly cut slices Of cucum-
Der until they are soft. These are
kept for most OF q day in salt water,
and usually parsley. and sometimes
chive IL cut up in the salt water.
When the cucumbers are ready for
serving they are free from all poison,
and they are in a measure free from
taste. There is no denying. however,
that they are digestible,
Some persons who have eaten these
cucumbers In the German and Hun
garian restaurants Hike them better
than the ordinary cucumbers served
here. They lack. however. the crisp
ness which every American demands In
. salad.
This quality is retained BY putting
the cut up cucumbers into ice cold W.
ter for half an hour before they ere
served. After they have been cat
they should be soaked In salt wster for
ct least i've hours. Then the poison
Ia gone. but the soaod IL seft and limp.
Put for half an hour tast before they
are served, into Ice WAGER. they will b
white and crisp. tasteful add NE from
the power to disagree With the most
delicate stomach. After being treated
In this way they may be sesvsd very
prettily on q plate In the form Of the
whole cucumber before II hes been
cut. -~- T.k' .
TO do this the slices should not be
sepasatsd in the salt wetsr. A hatptn
run through every cucumber AFTER Il
has been sliced will keep It intact.
Served In this way with fish or - .
salaA, the appearance Of the cucumbers
10 very attractive. But to suit the ~
Itetiss o{ ts.te. Il il easter to do more
IN salad vhsh the slices are not kept
together.
Cucumbers cut very thin, and, Of
course, soaked in advance, mix very
deliciousE with alligator salad. and II
is best In the case Of this comblp alton
to break away from the alligator pear
salad rule Of using lemon Juice and take
Vinegar.
The taste Of the two is not dissimilar
and there must be a pungency In the
dressing which alligator pears alone
do not need. -sILnicgssss",
With thin scallions cut lengthwise
the cucumbers blend in a way that any
>epicure would love, and cucumbers with
green peppers. cut lengthwise, are q
combination that offers some novelty
after the inevitable lettuce that mos
persons seem to think are the only
salads in the market
81 There are some new figs in marke
which have brought delight to the per
sons who'like that fruit, but have nevel
found 1t possible to make. even IL
Imagination, the figs ordinarily solt
bear any relation to the fresh fruit
Those that have been stuffed and ar
kept damp by some artificial mean
are too wet and insipid to please an,
pan in the least bit captious abou
figs.
Nor are those to which additiona
favor has been added agreeable to tn
real epicure Of figs. Some of ther
have nuts in the heart of the dried fl
and others have cherries. They ma
be good enough as a sweet, but to tn
lover Of figs they are not attractive.
Nothing has come 80 near the ret
article as the figs that have recentl
been brought hare, Theyare not cheal
There are only six in box but these 81
have the dewy freshness and del
cate flavor of fig that had ripene
In the sun and been picked from Il
branch only few minutes before. s
one is almost reconciled to paying
cents for the delicious SIKH. Y. Su