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Cucumber Sauce, White

A sauce made by simmering cucumber in salt and water, then stewing in white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,174 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cucumber Sauce, White

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the cucumber and cut it into small pieces, removing the seeds.

Cook the cucumber

  1. Simmer the cucumber pieces in a little salt and water until tender.

  2. Drain the cucumber and stew it in good white sauce for a few minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the cucumber in the white sauce.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cucumber + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cucumber
Provides the main vegetable body and a mild, fresh flavor to the sauce.
White sauce
Supplies the creamy base that coats the cucumber and gives the dish its body.

The step that matters

Simmering the cucumber until tender. Cucumber is mostly water and stays watery and firm if undercooked. Simmering until tender softens its cell walls so it absorbs the white sauce and does not leave a thin, watery dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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