Mom’s Cucumbers and Onions is an old fashioned recipe featuring garden vegetables. The ingredients are simple – cucumbers, onions, salt, vinegar, sugar, celery seed and black pepper, but the finished result is the perfect accompaniment to any summer meal.
Mom served cucumbers and onions at almost every summer lunch growing up on our farm. It’s one of those dishes that you really didn’t appreciate as a kid but you grow to love as you get older.
It had been a while since I’d made up a batch, so I texted mom to get a brush up. Her answer is classic, and I’m sure you’ve all received a recipe that resembled this in your day. Here is her recipe word for word. “Slice cucumbers and onions in a bowl. Cover with water. Add salt. Mix. Let sit an hour or so. Drain. Add sugar, white vinegar, pepper and a little celery seed.”
No exact amounts of any ingredient, because honestly, she had never measured a thing when making this salad. It’s just a little bit or this and a little bit of that until the right taste was achieved. Many times, it’s for just this reason that recipes are lost over generations since they really aren’t ever written down.
FULL RECIPE IN THE NEXT PAGE, ENJOY ????