If you didn't manage to collect cucumbers from a bed in time, and they outgrew, or just bought large fruits, as a rule, on sale they it an order below those that the usual size, you shouldn't be upset. From big cucumbers it is possible to make many tasty salads, snack and skin care products.
If you gained a large number of cucumbers, it is possible to process them. So, large fruits can be used in salads from a fresh vegetables and also to do with them preparations for the winter. But hostesses found to big cucumbers and many other applications, tasty and useful to health. Do cutlets, juice, marinades of them and it is a lot of other goodies.
Cucumber – to all the head
Very tasty, hostesses note, cucumber "piglets" cutlets turn out. For their preparation grate fruits overages, wring out juice. Then add to weight several tablespoons of flour and one spoon of potato starch (it well "absorbs" excessive liquid), to taste – salt, pepper and garlic. Properly knead weight, it has to be on consistence as dense sour cream. Create a spoon of cutlet and send them to a frying pan with the warmed vegetable oil. Fry fritters from two parties before emergence of a golden crust. Ready cutlets can be filled with sour cream and garlic sauce.
Sour cream in gas station can be replaced with mayonnaise. Sauce from it will only develop an additional taste. Also the stuffed cucumbers turn out successful. Cut fruits lengthways, pull out from them seeds, then fill cucumbers with in advance prepared mincemeat flavored with garlic, pepper, salt, spices. Lay out cucumbers on the baking tray oiled vegetable, from above strew with a grated cheese. Put for 20-30 minutes in an oven and later remove test.
Cucumbers of the large size can be fried, as well as squash. Cut fruits circles, roll in them in flour and fry from two parties.
It is necessary to make fresh-salted cucumbers urgently? Then carefully wash out them, cut off tails. Cut cucumbers circles, put in a strong plastic bag. Season with their salt (on 1 kg of cucumbers 1 tablespoon of salt will be required), garlic, it is possible to add a leaf of blackcurrant, seeds and branches of fennel, mix and leave for one or two hours in the warm place. Then remove a package in the fridge. Don't forget to shake periodically a package that cucumbers were properly salted. In 3-4 hours it will be possible to remove test from the ogurechok prepared in such a way. Miss large fruits via the juice extractor, boil it and add to it salt and spices as for a brine, and at you great marinade for salting cucumbers will turn out.
Cucumber for beauty and health
Cucumber juice well tones up, bleaches and purifies skin. Grate cucumbers, wring out juice, pour in molds for ice and freeze. Use cucumber cubes daily for face care. Make a face pack of pulp. For it it is possible to use only cucumber weight, and it is possible to diversify it with sour cream, kefir, honey, egg.
Cucumber juice has poslablyayushchy effect and is recommended to those who suffers from chronic locks.
Good means for problem skin care – cucumber lotion. For its preparation grate two large cucumbers. Fill in them with a glass of vodka and put for day to infuse to the cool dark place. Then filter the turned-out means through a gauze and you can use it as required. It is the best of all to store such lotion in the fridge. Large, overripe cucumbers of yellowy-brown color help to solve also the patient for many women a problem with stones on thumbs. For miracle cure salt cucumbers in the usual way, and then in a month you can begin treatment. Steam out legs, cut off a piece from a cucumber, apply it to a cone, cover with a polyethylene film, fix by a plaster, put on a sock and leave for the night. In several weeks of a stone will begin to be softened. You will need only to begin them to mass, to rumple, and over time they will disappear absolutely.