Recipe - Japanese Cucumber Salad

2 Japanese cucumbers

DRESSING
7 tablespoon White vinegar
3 tablespoon Sugar
One half tablespoon Soy sauce
One half tablespoon Grated ginger
1 pn MSG (optional)
Salt

1. Slice cucumbers as thin as possible

2. Place them in a bowl with 2 T salt and let stand 1 hour.

3.Meanwhile, bring all the other ingredients to a boil, except ginger.Let
cool.

4. Wash the salt off the cucumbers and squeeze the liquid out.

5. Pour dressing on cucumbers and stir in the grated ginger.

Note: you may add cooked shrimp to this salad.

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Leon & Miriam
Posvolsky miriamp@pobox.com on Jul 15, 1997