18 adjectives to describe cucumbers

Altogether, 1/2 hour. PICKLED CUCUMBERS.

A dish of dressed cucumber usually accompanies this fish.

DILL PICKLES FOR WINTER USE Take two or three dozen medium-sized cucumbers and lay them in salt water overnight.

Arrange the salad lightly on a glass dish, and garnish, first with a row of sliced cucumber, then with the pieces of lobster, the yolks and whites of the eggs, coral, and beetroot placed alternately, and arranged in small separate bunches, so that the colours contrast nicely.

Take six middling cucumbers, pare and cut them in quarters long way, also two cabbage-lettices, and stew them in brown gravy; so lay them round your veal when you dish it up, with a few forc'd-meat-balls and some slices of bacon.

Cut in small pieces any cold dressed fish, turbot or salmon are the best suited; mix it with half a pint of small salad, and a lettuce cut small, two onions boiled till tender and mild, and a few truffles thinly sliced; pour over a fine salad mixture, and arrange it into a shape, high in the centre, and garnish with hard eggs cut in slices; a little cucumber mixed with the salad is an improvement.

* AN OLD WAY OF PICKLING CUCUMBERS.

AN EXCELLENT WAY OF PRESERVING CUCUMBERS.

I was okay the second time, for earthworms taste crunchy, like raw cucumber, not slimy and wet as they look.

[Illustration: CLUB SANDWICH] PICKLED RIPE CUCUMBER RINGS Pare rind from 2 quarts ripe cucumbers, cut in slices crosswise, and then stamp out centers, making rings.

Slice sufficient cucumbers, onions, and apples to fill a pint stone jar, taking care to cut the slices very thin; arrange them in alternate layers, shaking in as you proceed salt and cayenne in the above proportion; pour in the soy and wine, and fill up with vinegar.

The fruit is shaped something like a short, thick cucumber, and is as large as a large pear.

Though the hounds are travelling at their greatest possible pace, they ride alongside them, looking as cool as cucumbers (too cool, I think, for their own enjoyment; for the more excitable though less experienced rider probably enjoys himself more).

SWEET PICKLES Soak five hundred tiny cucumbers in salt water for twenty-four hours, using one-half of a cup of salt to four quarts of water.

These trays contained meat-pilafs, swimming in melted butter; vine leaves filled with chopped mutton; kababs, or bits of roast meat spitted on wooden splinters; crisp cucumbers; a kind of tasteless bread; a dish that looked like vermicelli sweetened with honey; thin jelly, and sweetmeats that tasted strongly of rosewater.

They were commanded by a Highlander in a bum-bee tartan kilt, top-hat and one sock, with a red nose a foot long, riding on a rocking horse and brandishing a dem great cucumber and a tea-tray made into a shield.

The hardy or ridge cucumbers (which are not suited for frame or hothouse culture) should be raised in a frame or hot-bed in April, and planted out about the middle of May in a warm border on strawed ridges prepared with good stable manure, placing a hand-glass over each plant until it is well established.

However, George was cool as a cucumber, indeed almost indifferent about the act, but in a mad, boyish glee all day about everything else.

18 adjectives to describe  cucumbers