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Marinated Cucumber Salad
Based on Jane Dornbusch's recipe in the Boston Globe, 2005 August 17
Serves 6.
- 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 4 firm pickling cucumbers, unpeeled and thinly sliced
- Pinch of crushed red pepper (optional)
In a small bowl, combine the vinegar, salt, and sugar. Stir until the salt and sugar dissolve.
In a glass serving bowl, place the cucumbers and pour the vinegar mixture over them. Sprinkle with crushed pepper, if using.
Let the cucumbers stand at room temperature for 20 minutes, then cover and refrigerate for up to 3 hours before serving.
Notes
Haven't tried it yet. I'm sure it would go very well with the [Sesame-Peanut Noodles].
The Least Successful Collector
Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting. She
was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had
amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the
works of Shakespeare.
One day Warburton returned home to find 55 of them charred beyond
legibility. Betsy had either burned them or used them as pie bottoms. The
remaining three folios are now in the British Museum.
The only comparable literary figure was the maid who in 1835 burned
the manuscript of the first volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory of the
French Revolution", thinking it was wastepaper.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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