SC - Cucumbers: Recipe & Question

[Olwen the Odd]

Lars, my grandmother (matron) came here from Poland.  Her family crossed the 
Polish/Russian lines alot.  She taught my mom to make the dish the way I 
posted it, with sour cream and vinegar.
Olwen


>From: KallipygosRed at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Cucumbers: Recipe & Question
>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:29:31 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/5/00 8:00:27 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
>jdmiller2 at students.wisc.edu writes:
>
>
> > My grandmother makes this too. You basically slice cucumbers (I like 
>them
> > thin), add sour cream and thin it with milk to the consistency you wish.
> > Season with salt, pepper, dill, and a touch of sugar.  Sometimes she 
>added
> > celery seed.  We got this just about every time we visited, especially 
>in
> > the summer.
> >
> > No idea if it is period, but I doubt it.  :-(
> >
> > --Yana
> >
>
>They serve something similiar in Iran today, after meals, to help with the
>digestian. I was told while there that it is an Armenian dish, and older 
>than
>Moses in use. They used goats milk, curdled slightly to the consistency of
>yogurt, and the celery was not the seed but the pulped up celery, with 
>slices
>of cukes floating. Sometimes they changed the dish to be sweetier by useing
>mint leaves ground into the dish. Salt and Pepper were provided for your 
>own
>taste. They also served this dish without the cucumbers, as a side dish, 
>with
>onions grated into the yogurt and salt and pepper added to it. This, I
>remember, they called Maast. Much more savory taste.
>
>Could your grandmother have come from a strongly Armenian background, or
>neighborhood, as a child? If so, you might be able to find a similiar dish 
>in
>an ethnic cookbook of same. And that might also be a good place to start 
>the
>search for tracking down something similiar from period.
>
>Lars
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