Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak fresh cucumbers in very cold water for 1 hour before using.
Peel and slice the cucumbers.
Sprinkle lightly with coarse sea salt.
Serve
Serve immediately.
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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What each ingredient does
- Fresh cucumbers
- Provide the main body and crisp texture of the salad.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the cucumbers and draws out a little moisture from their surface.
The step that matters
Soaking the cucumbers in very cold water. Cold soaking firms the cucumber's cell walls so the slices stay crisp rather than limp once dressed and served.
“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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