Cucumber Salad
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04 · Cucumber Salad

Gurkensalat

One large cucumber, sliced as thin as it will go, in a cream dressing sharpened with vinegar, mustard and horseradish. Served cold.

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The cucumber

The dressing

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  • Heiner gave the ingredients, not the amounts; the quantities here are a starting point, not his measure. Adjust vinegar and sugar against each other until it tastes right.
  • The horseradish he spoons in freely, so it leads rather than lurks. Jarred Meerrettich fades as the salad sits, so it takes more than seems sensible.
  • Salting and draining is his step, not an addition; 10 to 15 minutes is enough.
  • The dill is frozen chopped, not fresh, so it thaws into the cream without going limp.
  • The brine comes out of a jar of würzig-scharfe Gurken, so it carries sugar, vinegar and mustard seed with it. Add it before the sugar and honey, then sweeten only if it still needs it.
  • Essig-Essenz is vinegar concentrate at around 25% acid, several times the strength of table vinegar. A few drops, stirred in and tasted, never a pour.
Under cling film and into the fridge: thin slices, dill through the cream.
Under cling film and into the fridge: thin slices, dill through the cream.