Mrs Beetons Vegetables Revisited
Fried Cucumbers
2-3 Cucumbers
Flour
Oil or Butter
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Pare the cucumbers and cut them into slices of an equal thickness, commencing to slice from the thick and not the stalk end of the cucumber.
Wipe the slices dry with a cloth.
Dredge with flour and put them into a pan of boiling oil or butter.
Keep turning until brown.
Remove from the pan, let them drain and serve, piled lightly in a dish.
These will be found a great improvement to rump steak.
They should be placed on a dish with the steak on the top.
Time: 5 minutes.
Sufficient: for 4 or 5 persons.
Seasonable: Forced from the beginning of March to the end of June. In full season in July and August.
FRIED CUCUMBERS
1113. INGREDIENTS - 2 or 3 cucumbers, pepper and salt to taste, flour, oil or butter.
Mode - Pare the cucumbers and cut them into slices of an equal thickness, commencing to slice from the thick, and not the stalk end of the cucumber. Wipe the slices dry with a cloth, dredge them with flour, and put them into a pan of boiling oil or butter; Keep turning them about until brown; lift them out of the pan, let them drain, and serve, piled lightly in a dish. These will be found a great improvement to rump-steak: they should be placed on a dish with the steak on the top.
Time - 5 minutes.
Average cost, when cheapest, 4d. each.
Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons.
Seasonable - Forced from the beginning of March to the end of June; in full season in July and August.
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