Cucumber and Yogurt Salad

Apparently, cucumber and yogurt salad was a popular appetizer during the Middle Ages. In al-Warraq’s tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook, we come across a recipe intriguingly called jajaq. A closer look into it reveals the oldest jajeek recipe we have access to so far. Here it is:

Take a clean leather container and scent it [usually fumigated with aloe wood]. Pour yogurt into it and add salt. The outside of the container needs to be salted, too. Stir into the yog