This is the only place I've ever seen this outside of my family. I thought we were crazy as no one else I know did this. We usual put in thin sliced onions and a little dill weed too. Great video!
Josh Mendle you’re right, my Polish grandma used sour cream. I knew I didn’t remember the mayo, but I couldn’t remember what the “cream” element was. Thanks.
This was always on Grandma's table and was always right next the the giant stack of wonder bread sitting next to the rhubarb sauce that you smear all over the bread. I love making these in the summer and I am the only one who eats them in my house so that means it's just more for me. Add some dill and a little garlic to add even more flavor. Love 'em.
Same with me too. sour cream, sugar, and dill. Not a lot of sugar but just enough to sweeten it. My grandma and my Mom always put sliced onion not diced.
We always had cucumbers and onions and still make them. No mayo, just vinegar, water, salt and pepper. Also your green onions and salt took me back to my childhood.
I appreciate so much your comment about mayonnaise. Thank you for making that clear for everyone. I have already sliced my cucumbers and salted them. Excited to have these with dinner
A Michigander here. We had sour cream pickles all summer long. Salt the pickles the same way, add sour cream, then salt and pepper to taste. As an adult I now add vinegar and sugar. All versions sound great to me!
When made with sour cream, this is the base of a German Cucumber Salad (Gurkensalat). Gurkensalat usually includes half of a diced onion and some dill. Some but not all recipes also include a little bit of sugar as well.
When my grandmother made this she always dragged the tings of a fork down the cucumber I don't know if this was just a decoration or just easier for the dressing to penetrate but I still do it.She and I often just use vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar when your short on mayo or don't really like mayo so much.
This reminds me of my mother's recipe using sour cream and dill. But the story about green onion with salt reminds me of my father. We used to eat green onions in the spring from our garden that way all the time. Thanks for the memories.
This made me smile. My Papa Pete passed last month, and he always ate either a whole green onion or a giant banana pepper with dinner in the summers. Fork in one hand, pepper or onion in the other. Good times! :)
We always make a table pickle with cukes thinly sliced sweet onions salt pepper and oil and redwine vinegar. My mom also used to dress with sour cream instead of the oil and vinegar and sometimes added fresh dill. My grandkids love this and have been eating it since they were toddlers.
This exactly how my grandmother made cukes from the summer garden (in Wisconsin, US)! And sometimes she would add tiny pieces of garden tomato to the mixture, which made the sauce a pale pink color with the green cukes. It's a nice change from the usual sour cream cukes. My grandmother would have also pulled the green onions from the garden and put them on the table next to the bowl of cukes, just as you described. I'm so glad this video popped up in my recommended list this morning! Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
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We call this cucumber salad. It’s one of my favorite summer sides. I add a thinly sliced vidalia onion, fresh dill, and a bit of sour cream. Now I’m totally craving a big bowl
Oh My Gosh! Thank you! I've been trying to find this ever since my Mother passed away.. she used to make this all the time!!! I could never find the correct one, all the ones I find always had differnt things, but this is the one!
Sounds yummy. My Auntie used to put a bit of dill in hers. I would put them on bread and eat as a sandwich. Great food for living in the desert. Thank you for sharing 🌞🌞🌞
Look forward to cucumber season to try this, although still months away for us. My pickle is an exceptionally old 14th century recipe, cucumbers, black pepper and a sprinkling of white wine vinegar. Wonderful!
We ate this all the time too! We did sour cream instead of mayo and usually some sliced red onion and dill, but it looked just like this - we called 'em gherkinsalat or German cukes. Unfortunately my wife and kids aren't fans so I don't make it very often, but yeah, it's a fav.
This reminds of something my grandma in Lebanon used to prepare for us during the summer time. Cutting the same cucumbers like you did tossing them in a large bowl with plain balkan style yogourt. Sometimes she would dilute the yogourt with a bit of water to make it more runny and yummy. I almost forgo; grandma always added dried and fresh mint and salt to taste!
love this and brings back alot of memories, my grandma always made this when i was young, and we'd come over.. greatest thing in the world [sometimes she'd add sweetener to just give it that little kick of sweetness] she still continues to do so nowadays... as they say you can never beat grandma's cooking.. and i believe that to be true but she teaches me well :)
Down here in the American Midwest, we have a version we refer to as "sour cream pickles". We add thinly sliced onion in it as well, and my great grandma's recipe was sour cream, vinegar, sugar, and a [now defunct brand of] mayo-based salad dressing.
I love all your stories of your family. No Julie, more reminiscing please. Reminds me of my grandma and her tales. I was able to write some of them down, but I wish I had done even more. But we were having fun weeding her garden or cooking something when I went to visit, so I didn’t think to get out my notebook all the time.
Hello Glen, In Hungary we have nearly the same but with sour cream. It is called "tejfölös uborka saláta". One of my favourite summer time side dish. Thanks for the recipe :)
I saw this video yesterday and made them last night. Just had some for lunch and they are DELICIOUS!!! My new favorite cuke eating. Thank you. BTW,I love your presentations. Old recipes fascinate me. Hi, Julie
My grandma used to send us to the garden with a dish of salt to snack on green onions, or sugar to go with rhubarb. So good. My family just puts cucumber or onion in vinegar. Super simple pickle.
My grandmother used to make a variation of this. Finely cut up summer cucumbers with salt, black pepper, a little bit of ground paprika, milk, or sour cream, water and a finely diced clove of garlic. It's absolutely amazing with any fatty or carb heavy dish.
I make these all the time. I have several variations: I use sour cream instead of mayo. I sometimes use dill pickle juice instead of vinegar for a change of pace. Delish. Also I add some sugar to sweeten it a bit. I’ve made it your way, too, and it works great with any kind of cuke. It’s a favourite side dish at our home.
I can remember my great grandmother teaching me to make these when I was a child over 50 years ago. I still make them today. We call them "Tickles" which is an obvious play on "table pickle". The only thing I do different is that I add garlic to the dressing.
Loved the green onion and salt story! Reminded me of my childhood. We often are them this way. I didn't really like the green part but my dad loved it, so I'd eat the bulb and pass the rest to my dad lol
I love this recipe! Thank you for reminding me of it. On both sides of the family it had to be Hellman's mayonnaise. Some prefer apple cider vinegar to the white vinegar. And I found dill weed in a 5.5oz(156g)container. Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven! Great in macaroni w/cheese, tuna, & peas. Also New England clam chowder, mixed w/ cottage cheese to dip chips in or put in the middle of a peach half. Love dill! Blessings on you and your family and friends and any livestock you might have wandering around the house and yard .
I'll have to try this - our family does sliced pickling cucumbers and onions in a vinegar sauce - will have to try adding the mayo. It's also nice to hear you talk about family varieties - in our family that shows up with the cole slaw recipe - some like celery seed (yuck), some like extra plain old yellow mustard added (yum), etc.
We always had this growing up, but with sliced onion and dill. Also thinner slice on the cucumbers, but larger size - straight from the garden. My Mom was raised close to PA Dutch country and a lot of her recipes (which would have been handed down) had that influence. I suspect this one did as well.
Our table pickles never had mayo in them but I bet that is a nice addition. We would pick the cucumbers that were ready that day, pop them in the fridge for a few hours to get them cool, then slice them up and pour cold vinegar over with a pinch of salt and fresh cracked pepper. Usually served with sliced garden tomatoes with salt and pepper on top as well and maybe some toasted crusty bread. It was a common summer snack when it was super hot outside and me and my friends would come in from playing in the woods overheated and tired.
Love your content. For this one.. I wouldn't be able to be in the same room as you making this video. The stench of the cucumbers would make was wanna wretch..
My grandmother had a similar cucumber dish with thin-sliced white onion (as others here have recommended) as well as milk instead of mayonnaise, I believe. Plus a dash of sugar. I'll have to go track down that recipe now as I've got a craving!
I’ll try this. We have pickling cucumbers in our garden that I made refrigerator pickles with that are ready as we speak! Currently trying to pry the lid off. 😆
My Polish side of the Family made these with pickling or English cucumbers almost the same as this but with oil and vinegar instead of with mayo. My Brother in law’s mom used to do a buttermilk dressing (sort of like a homemade ranch but not as thick). I still make table pickles every day in the summer.
Definitely see this stuff at weddings etc in the sticks in Saskatchewan. Usually with tiny fresh onions and some fresh dill. Some sour cream in there more often than not. I suspect Scandinavian origins. When I make it I pickle the cukes with the vinegar after purging, then drain before making with the creamy stuff.
As some of mentioned sour cream works well, as does well strained greek yogurt. Occasionally add a bit of dill for a change up. My mother and grandmother used mayo for theirs, almost exactly as you made yours!
Its interesting that a number of families seem to have some version of a cucumber salad like this; with my family, it was my father's parents that always had a cucumber salad made of sliced cucumbers, onions and Italian dressing on the table with pretty much every dinner in the summer time. For quite a while, my dad would make it too. I've since found a variant I like here at a local event called the Scandinavian Fair (a lot of Scandinavians settled in this area so its basically all about celebrating that heritage); Danish cucumber salad. I actually found the recipe in a Danish recipe book we bought there one year. From the book it reads: 2 medium cucumbers 1/3 cup of water 1 tsp salt 2/3 cup of white vinegar 1 tblspn sugar Dash of pepper Partially peel and thinly slice cucumbers into a bowl. Mix together the vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper and bring it to a boil. Cool and pour over cucumbers. Refrigerate and serve chilled. When they say thinly sliced, they're not kidding; paper thin is not an exaggeration. It helps the cucumbers to really soak in the dressing. The version we had at the fair was quite a lot sweeter, so I did some experimentation and settled on 3 tablespoons of sugar instead; this is the right amount of sweet and sour for my wife and I but others' mileage may vary. I recommend letting it sit in the fridge at least over night and the longer the better. We found this also goes really well as a condiment on sandwiches.
Our family had something similar. We did thinly sliced cucumbers, thinly sliced onions; salted as in your recipe for an hour, drained/ rinsed We didn't use mayo, we used sour cream. I will try your way too
Would love to hear more about what typical foods you remember on the table from your childhoods. Also I make refrigerator pickles all the time in large-ish batches - cukes, onion, vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, celery seed & turmeric. I eat them every day. I do peel the cucumbers as the skins get tough after a few days.
We would sometimes make a variation of that with pole to pole wedges of fresh tomato mixed in with the cucumber slices. We always made ours with sour cream, and sometimes sliced onions, but no vinegar or dill. The cucumbers were cut in very thin slices. A mandolin does a good job of that. Some people add sugar to the cucumbers and sour cream. Cucumbers and sour cream is a favorite dish of mine. We'd had it often in summer, but also at Christmas.
I’ll add to the many comments and say that I grew up with something like this. I lived on a dairy farm in Ohio, and we had a seemingly endless supply of cucumbers during the summer. My mother would make a cucumber salad with vinegar and sour cream. Sounds like this is an Eastern European thing, which makes sense, since my maternal grandparents had German and Polish ancestry. I’ll say that the vinegar and mayo combination in this recipe reminds me more of a coleslaw dressing minus the sugar.
Will give you a tips, try swedish ’pressgurka’. Thinly sliced cukumbers in water, sugar and vinegar. Salt, white pepper and parsley. Eaten to every meal. Or to potatomash and meatballs and lingonberry. Yummy! 🤤
I thought this was Polish Mizeria from the title card. It's similar but uses sour cream instead of mayo. My family did sour cream, cucumber, and onion. Most recipes I see are cucumber, sour cream, dill, lemon juice, and a pinch of sugar.
Ooh thats what my mom would make, back in the day ( and im only in my 40's lol) from what you call english cucumbers, tried to make it so often, never succeded, now i think i know what i did wrong, put it back in the fridge!
This is the only place I've ever seen this outside of my family. I thought we were crazy as no one else I know did this. We usual put in thin sliced onions and a little dill weed too. Great video!
My Mom always made this, too. She used a mandolin to slice the cucumbers very thinly and also added onion.
I was going to say, I remembered this w/ onion and dill... but yeah, haven't seen this since I was a kid.
My Polish grandma always made this, and my Slovenian mother-in-law makes it without the mayo.
My Polish grandma would use sour cream, thinly sliced onion and dill. Believe she called it Mizeria or something like that. I can't imagine Mayo.
Josh Mendle you’re right, my Polish grandma used sour cream. I knew I didn’t remember the mayo, but I couldn’t remember what the “cream” element was. Thanks.
This was always on Grandma's table and was always right next the the giant stack of wonder bread sitting next to the rhubarb sauce that you smear all over the bread. I love making these in the summer and I am the only one who eats them in my house so that means it's just more for me. Add some dill and a little garlic to add even more flavor. Love 'em.
Reminds me the simple abundance and graciousness of my childhood. Thank you!!!
THANK YOU! I'm not crazy like my neighbour thinks.
I told her i love this w/raw onions🧅🥒
I eat this all year round.
In my family the dressing is just sour cream and some chopped dill. Summer favorite!
Yee don't need mayo yuck
yep sour cream, a touch of salt, dill, and maybe a splash of apple cider vinegar
That’s one of the ways Mom made cucumbers and onions. Never heard it called a table pickle before. Now I want to get some cucumbers!
This looks good, but I prefer sour cream too. We also had sliced cucumbers with vinegar, onion, salt and pepper and maybe a bit of sugar.
I was just gonna say that! My grandma always made it with onion and sour cream..
All this time I thought this was a Polish thing. Sour Cream, Vinegar, Dill, Pepper. Never thought I’d ever see this. So cool
Same with me too. sour cream, sugar, and dill. Not a lot of sugar but just enough to sweeten it. My grandma and my Mom always put sliced onion not diced.
Exactly!
Thanks for watching Everyone! *Let us know in the comments if you have a favourite quick pickle / table pickle.* Full recipe in the description box.
thinly sliced cucumber, water, sugar, vinegar. can replace the water with cream, gets a little thicker.
I thought the issue with mayo is when it is mixed with starchy foods like potatoes or macaroni. This looks fantastic!
We always make this with Miracle Whip and vinegar and usually add tomatoes
I luv the reminiscing!😎👍👍Don't be afraid of it, that's why we're here!! When you and Jules do it, it brings back our memories too!🙏🙏
We always had cucumbers and onions and still make them. No mayo, just vinegar, water, salt and pepper. Also your green onions and salt took me back to my childhood.
I appreciate so much your comment about mayonnaise. Thank you for making that clear for everyone. I have already sliced my cucumbers and salted them. Excited to have these with dinner
A Michigander here. We had sour cream pickles all summer long. Salt the pickles the same way, add sour cream, then salt and pepper to taste. As an adult I now add vinegar and sugar. All versions sound great to me!
It reminds me of polish dish "miseria". Indeed a incredibly refreshing summer dish
When made with sour cream, this is the base of a German Cucumber Salad (Gurkensalat). Gurkensalat usually includes half of a diced onion and some dill. Some but not all recipes also include a little bit of sugar as well.
I was wondering if my grandma's version had German roots. She's 💯 German ancestry but has almost no heritage recipes or traditions, kinda weird.
Yup little bit of sugar.
These are great. Like others I add thinly sliced onions and also a good pinch of mustard powder.
Thinly sliced red onion and sliced tomatoes, maybe some dill fronds
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When my grandmother made this she always dragged the tings of a fork down the cucumber I don't know if this was just a decoration or just easier for the dressing to penetrate but I still do it.She and I often just use vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar when your short on mayo or don't really like mayo so much.
This reminds me of my mother's recipe using sour cream and dill. But the story about green onion with salt reminds me of my father. We used to eat green onions in the spring from our garden that way all the time. Thanks for the memories.
This made me smile. My Papa Pete passed last month, and he always ate either a whole green onion or a giant banana pepper with dinner in the summers. Fork in one hand, pepper or onion in the other. Good times! :)
This reminds me of my grand-father’s favourite salad of leaf lettuce, cucumber, onion mixed with a sour cream and vinegar dressing.
my family added hard boiled eggs
Leaf lettuce is really good my grandma would use half and half and sugar. Man it was really good. In the evening was the best when we eat.
I've been making a cucumber, tomato, red onion, salad with olive oil and red wine vinegar. Very tasty.
Dill goes great on it.
I love the reminiscences! We always had this made with sour cream, dill, sliced white onion, and cucumbers. So fresh!
We always make a table pickle with cukes thinly sliced sweet onions salt pepper and oil and redwine vinegar. My mom also used to dress with sour cream instead of the oil and vinegar and sometimes added fresh dill. My grandkids love this and have been eating it since they were toddlers.
I love hearing your traditions!
Very different than mine... we had red bell pepper/burnt peeled, with garlic and olive oil. Love your show. ~Marie
This exactly how my grandmother made cukes from the summer garden (in Wisconsin, US)! And sometimes she would add tiny pieces of garden tomato to the mixture, which made the sauce a pale pink color with the green cukes. It's a nice change from the usual sour cream cukes. My grandmother would have also pulled the green onions from the garden and put them on the table next to the bowl of cukes, just as you described. I'm so glad this video popped up in my recommended list this morning! Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Thank you for clarifying that there are many ways to create a cucumber salad. I think I enjoy each one.
One of my grandmother's favorite recipes
I like the stories of the old day, more please.
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We call this cucumber salad. It’s one of my favorite summer sides. I add a thinly sliced vidalia onion, fresh dill, and a bit of sour cream. Now I’m totally craving a big bowl
Our family also have this on our table during cucumber season. A favorite for several generations. :)
what is the shelf life, give or take a day? thanks
Oh My Gosh! Thank you! I've been trying to find this ever since my Mother passed away.. she used to make this all the time!!! I could never find the correct one, all the ones I find always had differnt things, but this is the one!
Was raised with these-my mom always added onion, too. Absolutely love them ❤
Cucumber, onion and malt vinegar (salt/pepper), goes really well with fish & chips.
Just picked two cukes from the garden. I am *so* doing this tomorrow!!! THANK you!!
It’s so fascinating to hear both of you reminisce about something that I’ve never even heard of!
Sounds yummy. My Auntie used to put a bit of dill in hers. I would put them on bread and eat as a sandwich. Great food for living in the desert. Thank you for sharing 🌞🌞🌞
Look forward to cucumber season to try this, although still months away for us. My pickle is an exceptionally old 14th century recipe, cucumbers, black pepper and a sprinkling of white wine vinegar. Wonderful!
We ate this all the time too! We did sour cream instead of mayo and usually some sliced red onion and dill, but it looked just like this - we called 'em gherkinsalat or German cukes. Unfortunately my wife and kids aren't fans so I don't make it very often, but yeah, it's a fav.
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My Polish mother's variation I learned and still make is Cucumber, onion, sour cream, lemon juice, sugar, salt. I've since added pepper to the mix.
Came here to find if anybody else was talking about this. Mizeria!
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This reminds of something my grandma in Lebanon used to prepare for us during the summer time. Cutting the same cucumbers like you did tossing them in a large bowl with plain balkan style yogourt. Sometimes she would dilute the yogourt with a bit of water to make it more runny and yummy.
I almost forgo; grandma always added dried and fresh mint and salt to taste!
love this and brings back alot of memories, my grandma always made this when i was young, and we'd come over.. greatest thing in the world [sometimes she'd add sweetener to just give it that little kick of sweetness] she still continues to do so nowadays... as they say you can never beat grandma's cooking.. and i believe that to be true but she teaches me well :)
Wish I found this before our cucumbers were all done for the year. Definitely will try next year.
Down here in the American Midwest, we have a version we refer to as "sour cream pickles". We add thinly sliced onion in it as well, and my great grandma's recipe was sour cream, vinegar, sugar, and a [now defunct brand of] mayo-based salad dressing.
My grandmother made a version of this with vinegar and oil and onions (in addition to the cukes). So good!
I love all your stories of your family. No Julie, more reminiscing please. Reminds me of my grandma and her tales. I was able to write some of them down, but I wish I had done even more. But we were having fun weeding her garden or cooking something when I went to visit, so I didn’t think to get out my notebook all the time.
Like you say, brings me back to my youth... 👍👍
This is the first time that I’ve heard of someone besides my grandfather eat green onions with salt. Delicious, I might add!!
Hello Glen,
In Hungary we have nearly the same but with sour cream. It is called "tejfölös uborka saláta". One of my favourite summer time side dish. Thanks for the recipe :)
Tried with cider vinegar, and again with a lemon-infused white balsamic...both were lovely. Fresh herbs are always good, too.
This cucumber salad is the freaking best!!!! I love to sprinkle a little bit of sugar in mine!!
I saw this video yesterday and made them last night. Just had some for lunch and they are DELICIOUS!!! My new favorite cuke eating. Thank you. BTW,I love your presentations. Old recipes fascinate me. Hi, Julie
Just made this today! It was GREAT! Thanks for the recipe.
I made this today, fantastic! Cubed using vegan mayo (all I had) and red wine vinegar. Thanks for the tip on this great flavour combo.
Growing up in Iowa this with onions was a staple at summer cookouts
My grandma used to send us to the garden with a dish of salt to snack on green onions, or sugar to go with rhubarb. So good. My family just puts cucumber or onion in vinegar. Super simple pickle.
My grandmother used to make a variation of this. Finely cut up summer cucumbers with salt, black pepper, a little bit of ground paprika, milk, or sour cream, water and a finely diced clove of garlic. It's absolutely amazing with any fatty or carb heavy dish.
Going to try this! My dad would dip green onions into salt. That's how I learned to eat them.
I make these all the time. I have several variations: I use sour cream instead of mayo. I sometimes use dill pickle juice instead of vinegar for a change of pace. Delish. Also I add some sugar to sweeten it a bit. I’ve made it your way, too, and it works great with any kind of cuke. It’s a favourite side dish at our home.
Sounds refreshing! Thanks, Glen. - Marilyn
I can remember my great grandmother teaching me to make these when I was a child over 50 years ago. I still make them today. We call them "Tickles" which is an obvious play on "table pickle". The only thing I do different is that I add garlic to the dressing.
Loved the green onion and salt story! Reminded me of my childhood. We often are them this way. I didn't really like the green part but my dad loved it, so I'd eat the bulb and pass the rest to my dad lol
Might try this later.... Bumper crop of cucumbers from the garden this year!
Just made them. Tase is reminiscent of tzatziki without the garlic. Very good.
I love this recipe! Thank you for reminding me of it. On both sides of the family it had to be Hellman's mayonnaise. Some prefer apple cider vinegar to the white vinegar. And I found dill weed in a 5.5oz(156g)container. Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven! Great in macaroni w/cheese, tuna, & peas. Also New England clam chowder, mixed w/ cottage cheese to dip chips in or put in the middle of a peach half. Love dill! Blessings on you and your family and friends and any livestock you might have wandering around the house and yard .
My Mom
made a similar recipe but included thinly sliced onion. Delicious!
I could see this going well with a nice potato salad
my grandma always makes this. The only difference is that she adds thin sliced onions! Its delicious!
This is so Ontario. Lovely. Thanks Glen, from an expat.
I'll have to try this - our family does sliced pickling cucumbers and onions in a vinegar sauce - will have to try adding the mayo. It's also nice to hear you talk about family varieties - in our family that shows up with the cole slaw recipe - some like celery seed (yuck), some like extra plain old yellow mustard added (yum), etc.
We always had this growing up, but with sliced onion and dill. Also thinner slice on the cucumbers, but larger size - straight from the garden. My Mom was raised close to PA Dutch country and a lot of her recipes (which would have been handed down) had that influence. I suspect this one did as well.
Our table pickles never had mayo in them but I bet that is a nice addition. We would pick the cucumbers that were ready that day, pop them in the fridge for a few hours to get them cool, then slice them up and pour cold vinegar over with a pinch of salt and fresh cracked pepper. Usually served with sliced garden tomatoes with salt and pepper on top as well and maybe some toasted crusty bread. It was a common summer snack when it was super hot outside and me and my friends would come in from playing in the woods overheated and tired.
This! Delicious.
Yes.
Love your content. For this one.. I wouldn't be able to be in the same room as you making this video. The stench of the cucumbers would make was wanna wretch..
My grandmother had a similar cucumber dish with thin-sliced white onion (as others here have recommended) as well as milk instead of mayonnaise, I believe. Plus a dash of sugar. I'll have to go track down that recipe now as I've got a craving!
I just made these the other night! We use Cider Vinegar, and sour cream instead of mayo. We also add thinly sliced sweet onions and w/dill.
That is an excellent starter recipe! Great on it's own and definite possibilities for some herbs! Always looking for a good non-lettuce salad!
this is awesome cuz i just made a big ol bowl of salty and vinegar cucumber, with just water vinegar and cucumbers with a little bit of pepper
I’ll try this. We have pickling cucumbers in our garden that I made refrigerator pickles with that are ready as we speak! Currently trying to pry the lid off. 😆
My Polish side of the Family made these with pickling or English cucumbers almost the same as this but with oil and vinegar instead of with mayo. My Brother in law’s mom used to do a buttermilk dressing (sort of like a homemade ranch but not as thick). I still make table pickles every day in the summer.
will have to try that. I love cucumbers for a snack more than chips. You ask me and I will go to that before a chip any day.
I absolutely love it, this is amazing!
Definitely see this stuff at weddings etc in the sticks in Saskatchewan. Usually with tiny fresh onions and some fresh dill. Some sour cream in there more often than not. I suspect Scandinavian origins. When I make it I pickle the cukes with the vinegar after purging, then drain before making with the creamy stuff.
As some of mentioned sour cream works well, as does well strained greek yogurt. Occasionally add a bit of dill for a change up. My mother and grandmother used mayo for theirs, almost exactly as you made yours!
I don’t mind the flavor, but it just feels slimy in my mouth. I could never get over the mouth-feel.
We do something similar to this. We skin the cucumbers though and use miracle whip.
Cucumber skins is where all the vitamins are.
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Its interesting that a number of families seem to have some version of a cucumber salad like this; with my family, it was my father's parents that always had a cucumber salad made of sliced cucumbers, onions and Italian dressing on the table with pretty much every dinner in the summer time. For quite a while, my dad would make it too. I've since found a variant I like here at a local event called the Scandinavian Fair (a lot of Scandinavians settled in this area so its basically all about celebrating that heritage); Danish cucumber salad. I actually found the recipe in a Danish recipe book we bought there one year. From the book it reads:
2 medium cucumbers
1/3 cup of water
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup of white vinegar
1 tblspn sugar
Dash of pepper
Partially peel and thinly slice cucumbers into a bowl. Mix together the vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper and bring it to a boil. Cool and pour over cucumbers. Refrigerate and serve chilled.
When they say thinly sliced, they're not kidding; paper thin is not an exaggeration. It helps the cucumbers to really soak in the dressing. The version we had at the fair was quite a lot sweeter, so I did some experimentation and settled on 3 tablespoons of sugar instead; this is the right amount of sweet and sour for my wife and I but others' mileage may vary. I recommend letting it sit in the fridge at least over night and the longer the better. We found this also goes really well as a condiment on sandwiches.
My mother did vinegar, a little diluted with water, a tsp sugar and salt and pepper. Let it sit an hour before supper to “cure” and delicious!
In Wisconsin if you add some sliced onion then you've got Creamy Cucumber Salad!
Our family had something similar. We did thinly sliced cucumbers, thinly sliced onions; salted as in your recipe for an hour, drained/ rinsed
We didn't use mayo, we used sour cream. I will try your way too
Would love to hear more about what typical foods you remember on the table from your childhoods. Also I make refrigerator pickles all the time in large-ish batches - cukes, onion, vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, celery seed & turmeric. I eat them every day. I do peel the cucumbers as the skins get tough after a few days.
We would sometimes make a variation of that with pole to pole wedges of fresh tomato mixed in with the cucumber slices. We always made ours with sour cream, and sometimes sliced onions, but no vinegar or dill. The cucumbers were cut in very thin slices. A mandolin does a good job of that. Some people add sugar to the cucumbers and sour cream.
Cucumbers and sour cream is a favorite dish of mine. We'd had it often in summer, but also at Christmas.
I’ll add to the many comments and say that I grew up with something like this. I lived on a dairy farm in Ohio, and we had a seemingly endless supply of cucumbers during the summer. My mother would make a cucumber salad with vinegar and sour cream. Sounds like this is an Eastern European thing, which makes sense, since my maternal grandparents had German and Polish ancestry.
I’ll say that the vinegar and mayo combination in this recipe reminds me more of a coleslaw dressing minus the sugar.
In Southern Indiana, This was a common side dish in the Summer. However, our grandmas added sugar. It was really good.
That looks good I don't have a garden so I will have to rely on store bought.
Will give you a tips, try swedish ’pressgurka’. Thinly sliced cukumbers in water, sugar and vinegar. Salt, white pepper and parsley.
Eaten to every meal. Or to potatomash and meatballs and lingonberry.
Yummy! 🤤
Green onions dipped in salt. Yup, my dad still does that and my midwestern cousins do as well.
Loved it
I thought this was Polish Mizeria from the title card. It's similar but uses sour cream instead of mayo. My family did sour cream, cucumber, and onion. Most recipes I see are cucumber, sour cream, dill, lemon juice, and a pinch of sugar.
Ooh thats what my mom would make, back in the day ( and im only in my 40's lol) from what you call english cucumbers, tried to make it so often, never succeded, now i think i know what i did wrong, put it back in the fridge!