Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2009

I omitted the tomatoes and replaced the onions with a generous handful of dehydrated onion. Other than that, kept the measurements the same. At the end I added black pepper and plain old cold water, because that's how my Mama always served this dish--watered down with lots of black pepper. This has a few more spices than Mama used to do, but that's all to the good to convince a picky husband that cucumbers DO have a flavor! I'm actually surprised that this recipe didn't call for water--I've never had it that way, and I've had this dish at a large number of homes in the South. You just add water to the vinegar until you get a mild zip, like Italian dressing essentially. Thanks for the recipe!

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JARRIE

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Reviewed: Aug. 9, 2009

Awesome flavors all together.

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SUEHOWIE

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Home Town: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2009

I scaled this down to 2 servings, as I was experimenting w/a variety of cuke salad recipes (I've never made it before and there are a TON of recipes out there...this was one of the 4 I selected). I followed the recipe as is, save the celery salt, per personal preference. Of the 4 cuke salad recipes I tried, I think this will be my go to when I want a non-cream cuke salad. Just per my personal tastes, next time I think I'll slightly decrease the basil and oregano and increase the cayenne pepper---the slight heat is a nice addition! TY for a great recipe!

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Reviewed: Mar. 21, 2009

I personally really really like this with three changes. One I didn't salt the cucumbers because there was salt enough in the dressing. Two I added yellow peppers to give it an additional color. Three I halved cherry tomatoes instead of the medium tomatoes. I changed out the tomatoes because I like the texture a little bit better. I served this at a party accompanied by chicken pot pie and everyone loved it.

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Beth

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Home Town: Lynbrook, New York, USA

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Reviewed: Mar. 11, 2009

The few extra seasonings in this salad dressing do add to the taste, but my favorite marinated cucumber salad is made with a very simple vinegar/sugar dressing and some dill, preferably fresh. I also prefer that the seeds of the cucumber be removed - a good way to do that is to halve it lengthwise and scoop the seeds and membrane with a spoon.

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Reviewed: Oct. 27, 2008

This was extremely good! I used an English cucumber, so I skipped the step for salting it and letting it sit before rinsing. It didn't need that because it was not bitter. The only changes I made was to use roasted red peppers instead of tomatoes and I also added black olives.I made the dressing exactly as written and it was perfect! I love the slight sweetness of the dressing in combination with the cucumbers. I will be making this quite often!

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Lillian

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Reviewed: Oct. 19, 2008

This was fantastic! It was like a souped up version of the easy "Italian dressing on the cucumbers" marinade. Well worth the extra effort (not that there was that much extra effort involved)!

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