Hot Weather Dishes

Philadelphia, 1888: what to eat when it is too hot to cook, from the cooking-school teacher who taught the city.

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Fried Cucumbers

Pare the cucumbers, cut them into slices about one-sixteenth of an inch thick, season them with salt and pepper, dip them first in egg and then in bread crumbs. Put two tablespoonfuls of lard or dripping into a frying pan; when hot, put in a few slices of the cucumbers; when brown and crisp on one side, turn and brown the other. Take out carefully, drain on brown paper, and serve very hot.

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