CUCUMBER SALAD 4 cucumbers 1 sweet Spanish onion 1 c. sugar 1 c. water 1/2 c. vinegar 1/2 c. oil celery seed Peel cucumbers. Score lengthwise with tines of fork all around cucumbers. Slice cucumbers thinly. Put in salted ice water; add sliced onion. Let stand 1 or 2 hours. Cook sugar and water until sugar is well dissolved. Cool. Add vinegar and oil to cooled sugar syrup and mix well. Drain and rinse cucumbers and onion slices. Pour vinegar and oil mixture over them to cover. Sprinkle with celery seed. Refrigerate over- night. Yield 8 to 10 servings. This is a recipe from our database at Cookbooks On/Line! 1,000,000+ free recipes and free software at: http://www.cookbooks.com Accuracy is believed to be good, but is not guaranteed. This recipe posting is intended for personal use only. You can print a copy for yourself and/or your friends, but you cannot publish it or post it to any Internet or other public site without our permission. |