Show cucumbers history A strange recipe was once given tor for the use of cucumbers it stilted stated peel off ob the cucumber slice it pepper it put vinegar to it and then throw it out of the window it Is of course difficult to account for tastes but tills this rather suggests advice addee prompted by an enfeebled digestion the cucumber has hai for centuries had a place in the worlds dietary table we have biblical authority for the statement that when iha the israelites complained to moses they said we remember the fish which we did eat in egypt the cucumber and the melons there may be ba imaginative minds who will see here a link with that popular english dish of today salmon and cucumber chicago journal |