Cucumber Salad Recipes

Hot summer weather is just perfect for cucumber salad recipes. The cucumbers grow well in the heat and they make a cooling summer salad.

Creamed Cucumbers have been on my family menu ever since I started cooking.I don’t know where the recipe I use came from and when I first used it. I never definitely measured anything……I just added the ingredients by how they looked.

And they always seemed to turn out just right.

This was a real challenge for me because I had never used a recipe. It took me about four weeks of experimenting and quite a few cucumbers to come up with a definitive recipe for “Creamed Cucumbers” that tasted like everyone remembered them tasting.

Here is the recipe:

Creamed Cucumbers

Slice the onions and the cucumbers very thin on a vegetable slicer.(I have an old Feemster`s vegetable slicer that I have had for years,and it is still my choice for slicing paper thin.)

Put the sliced vegetables in a large bowl.

Stir thoroughly and pour over the sliced vegetables. Gently stir to coat and refrigerate for an hour or so to let the flavors develop.

Serve on a bed of lettuce.

In extreme summer heat, cucumber salad recipes can be made with gelatin.One of my vegetable customers offered this one adapted from Better Homes and Garden. In a recent heat wave, I found it extremely cooling!

Cucumber Salad

Serves 8

Pour the cold water into a bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over water and letsoften 10 minutes.

Combine 1 cup water,vinegar,sugar and salt in saucepan. Cook over mediumheat until hot and sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.

Add gelatin and stir until dissolved. Transfer to a large bowlwhen gelatin begins to thicken.

Stir in cucumbers,onions and celery. Pour into a 6-8 cup mold thathas been lightly oiled.

Refrigerate 4 hours.

I hope you give these cucumber salad recipes a try!