Lynx
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Just like the past several years, we’ve harvested lots of cucumbers from our garden. Mr. Lynx suggested I look for a recipe to see if it was possible to make cucumber bread, and I found this one.@Geekybookworm and I spent at least an hour peeling, scraping out seeds, then shredding over a dozen cucumbers. We used the biggest and fattest ones first.
Lynx
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The good news is, we now know one can make a tasty cucumber bread. We just need to play around more to get the consistency right. It may just be a finicky bread to make.
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Cindy
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Cucumber bread ?!? Wow, I never would have thought of that.
I wonder, if you’d made 2 loaves, maybe in would have cooked through better.
Thanks for the link, I’ll consider making some myself.
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Lynx
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Perhaps, but they would have been half the height. I’ve had the same problem with banana bread baking that way before, too, probably with too ripe bananas. Maybe we ended up with too much cucumber or it didn’t get mixed well.
But hey, we’ve got more cucumbers. We can try again.
Interesting! I read the recipe & wondered why it didn’t include salting to extract moisture like you do for zucchini. Cukes are so much juicier, I’m sure this would help dry them out enough to let the loaf bake through.
Here are some googled instructions for zucchini that I’m sure would work for cucumber, just remove any salt from the dry ingredients so it doesn’t end up super salty:
For every pound of grated zucchini, place grated zucchini in a colander and add 1 teaspoon of salt to draw out the excess liquid. After about 15-20 minutes, using your hands, squeeze any remaining liquid from the zucchini and transfer to a plate lined with a paper towel.
TheMisterT cooks dishes from all over the world with all kinds of ingredients combined and used in ways that are atypical to most Americans and even with all that cucumber bread is blowing my mind! So glad to hear that it’s delicious!
