Dressed Cucumbers

Ingredients

• cucumbers
• fine salt
• pepper
• 2–3 tablespoonsful salad-oil
• 1–3 dessertspoonsful chili vinegar
• common vinegar

Instructions

1. Pare and slice the cucumbers very thin.
2. Strew a little fine salt over them and let them stand a few minutes.
3. Drain off the water by raising one side of the dish and letting it flow to the other; pour it away.
4. Strew more salt and a moderate seasoning of pepper over the cucumbers.
5. Add two or three tablespoonsful of the purest salad-oil and turn the cucumbers well so the whole receives a portion of it.
6. Pour over them from one to three dessertspoonsful of chili vinegar, and a little common vinegar should it be needed.
7. Turn them into a clean dish and serve.