. My cucumbers are now producing fruit ready to pick, so, I made us some nice cucumber salad and slow fried pork chops with mashed potatoes.
This year I used genuine pickling cucumbers rather than the straight 8 type and they are more tender and juicy than the type you get at grocery store.
One reason was when I made pickles three years ago, the Straight 8 and similar ones have tough skins, hard to bite through as pickles.
The cucumber salad is the same as Ma made:
Cukes, as many as one wants sliced THINLY.
A lot of onions , pungent ones are best.
A lot of black pepper, and salt
Then let that sit for 2-4 hours and drain off the water; add vinegar, to one's acid level and then add Heavy Cream .
Stir that up then add Half&Half till it is as runny as one chooses.
It will keep thickening over time, so I then add whole milk to thin it out a bit as it stores much better that way.
I will on occasion add other mixed spices when I put the salt and pepper in; tumeric seems to work well but not very much.
Tomorrow I will make garden lettuce salad which is similar except lettuce for cukes and I add sugar and often use rice or wine vinegar.
Put either one over freshly made mashed potatoes and it takes me back the best days of my youth when Ma made it.
