Cucumber Salad Danish Style

Name: Cucumber Salad Danish Style
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 200 g caster sugar; 60 g salt; 200 ml white wine vinegar, cider vinegar or, best of all, rice wine vinegar; 1 large cucumber or, better but harder to find, 3 small pickling cucumbers

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Soho Cooking

By Alastair Little

Published 1999

About

A delicious sweet cucumber salad served in Denmark with cold fish of all sorts, particularly and obviously herring. It goes well with cold salmon and, although a bit lengthy to prepare, keeps well in the fridge.

Ingredients

1 large cucumber or, better but harder to find, 3 small pickling cucumbers
60 g salt

Europe
Denmark
Side dish
Nordic

Method

Halve, peel the cucumbers, cut into finger lengths, and remove the seeds with an apple corer. Slice the cucumber finely and place in a glass or stainless-steel bowl. Weigh out half the salt and half the sugar, add these to the cucumbers and toss thoroughly. Leave to cure for a minimum of an hour, but ideally overnight. Put the remaining salt and suga