Cucumbers
1. Serve them most of the time plain sliced with only pounded ice strewn over. 2. Make a salad by mixing with the thin sliced cucumbers a few slices of onions and pouring over vinegar to cover, with pepper and salt. 3. Make a cucumber salad by pouring a salad dressing over the cucumbers, and use sliced tomatoes to garnish the dishes.
Let him carry home his leeks and shake his flanks over his wool-beating; he'll mend matters more that way. The taxes that harm him most are his heavy carcass and his idleness. --Romola.