Having pared your cucumbers, cut them lengthways into pieces about as
thick as a dollar. Then dry them in a cloth. Season them with pepper
and salt, and sprinkle them thick with flour. Melt some butter in a
frying-pan, and when it boils, put in the slices of cucumber, and fry
them of a light brown. Send them to table hot.
They make a breakfast dish.
TO DRESS CUCUMBERS RAW.--They should be as fresh from the vine as
possible, few vegetables being more unwholesome when long gathered. As
soon as they are brought in lay them in cold water. Just before they
are to go to table take them out, pare them and slice them into a pan
of fresh cold water. When they are all sliced, transfer them to a deep
dish, season them with a little salt and black pepper, and pour over
them some of the best vinegar, to which you may add a little salad
oil. You may mix with them a small quantity of sliced onion; not to be
eaten, but to communicate a slight flavour of onion to the vinegar.