Glut of Cucumbers!

~~Diane~~

My Nan used to make me a sort of pickle with cucumber when I was pregnant. I make it now but not the same as Nanas'

Cucumber skin/skinless
onion
malt vinegar
salt & pepper

Just slice cucumber & onions thinly, add vinegar salt & pepper to taste, leave a couple of hours and eat. I suppose you could use any other flavoured vinegar aswell.

I'd eat dishes of the stuff, now I just have little with cheese butties.

fairtrade

Lots of good recipes for all types of vegetables on this site:
http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/category/vegetable-recipes/cucumber-recipe/

Any

The cucumbers don't need to be the small pickolino ones for pickling...
You can pickle the big ones too, with or without skin (depends on the skin, sometimes they can be bitter-ish) and sliced into thicker slices.. like these

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=pickled+cucumber&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=K1rwBqzeJftTeM:&imgrefurl=http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/heritage-bread-and-butter-pickle-pickled-cucumber-and-onions-ru299697.html&docid=-cijnU83rVS5NM&w=422&h=460&ei=B0NKTurUMNSZhQf-l5DqBw&zoom=1&biw=983&bih=525&iact=rc&dur=500&page=12&tbnh=110&tbnw=96&start=174&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:174&tx=100&ty=83

Or into chips like shape as well..

Any

If you like salads, grate 1 cucumber, quite a bit of salt & little bit of pepper, leave in the fridge for half an hour (cucumber will let lots of liquid out) and mix in it 1 small pot of soured cream... lovely. Or you can go half soured cream, half natural white yoghurt.
Brilliant for BBQs... very refreshing when just out of the fridge.

Kleopatra

Thrift lady has a lovely simple recipe for picled cucumber on her blog here http://thequincetree65.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-pickle.html

I have made it and can recommend it.

Seakay

Stuffed Braised Cucumbers (Theodora FitzGibbon The Art of British Cooking)

2 large cucumbers
1/2lb minced cooked meat
1/2 pint of stock mixed with
2 teaspoons tomato puree
I minced onion
1 bunch chopped mixed herbs
salt and pepper
1 carrot

Mix the minced cold meat with the onion and chopped herbs and season to taste. Peel the cucumbers, cut off one end only and remove the seeds with a long knife or spoon. Fill with the meat mixture and use a piece of carrot in the end as a stopper. Put into a baking dish and pour th stock around them, cover with greaseproof paper and bake in a moderate oven for 3/4 - 1 hour.

Seakay

Lobster and Cucumber Soup (an 18th century receipe, spelling etc regularised)

1 small cucumber (peeled if skin is bitter)
1 teacup cooked peas
8oz cooked lobster
2 pints chicken stock
1 handful spinach or sorrel
1 medium onion
2 oz butter
1/2 head celery
1/2 teaspoon anchovy essence
1/4 pint cream
pinch of ground mace
salt and pepper

Melt the butter in a saucepan and add all the vegetables, diced. Stew them all gently until soft and then sieve them. Return to the saucepan. Add the diced lobster, anchovy essence, stock, mace, salt and pepper, bring to the boil and simmer for about 15 minutes. Add the cream, heat but do not reboil, and serve hot.

Seakay

Savoury cucumber granita

http://stephaniegallagher.suite101.com/cucumber-granita-a27803.html

spike7451

I like cucumbers but they give me terrible wind...Dad had the same issue with them....

Seakay

Have you tried them without peel on?