What can be done from spoiled cucumbers. Overgrown Cucumbers - Beauty Recipes

Good day, my dear friends and readers! There is a need for another section. In it, I will share those useful tips, recipes that I have personally tested and give them my assessment. So I’ll call the rubric: “Checked personally.” This section will have something in common with the section "School of Needlework", because everything that I will write about will be done by my own hands. And the first article for a new column is about overgrown cucumbers.

Very often, with a good harvest of cucumbers, housewives do not have time to process them. And they outgrow. The Internet is replete with advice on how to make salads for the winter from such cucumbers. Perhaps someone will need such recipes. I propose to think about beauty and about yourself. Therefore, my recipes will be about preparations for the winter, but not for food, but for beauty. And you'll learn how to use overgrown cucumbers for skin care all year round.

By the way, not only overgrown cucumbers are suitable for such purposes, but also soft ones that were not used in a timely manner and are waiting for their fate to go to waste. What can be done from overgrown cucumbers?

The simplest is cucumber masks. But how many cucumbers can be used for a mask? One two. And if you do something that can be used in the winter?

Overgrown cucumber lotion

Making such a lotion is very simple, and the benefits of it are great.

Firstly: the product will not go to the trash, but will go into business. Second: homemade lotion keeps your hands warm. Thirdly: the lotion is a universal skin care product.

What you need to make lotion

cucumbers
Vodka
Cutting board
lotion jar
Strainer for straining
Container for storing lotion, preferably dark or matte.

I prefer to store everything in a glass container. Unlike plastic, it does not absorb odors and does not give them to the product. My lotion will overflow from the can into the dark beer bottle.

How to make lotion

Depending on the condition of the cucumbers, we decide whether to use them with or without the skin. I do it without the skin. I like it that way.

My raw material.
We clear the skin.
Cut into slices 2-3 mm thick.
We put it in layers in a jar, lightly tamping until the jar is completely filled.
Pour vodka down the neck.
We send the jar to a dark place to infuse for two weeks.
After two weeks, we filter our lotion into a clean container.

Such a lotion can be stored at room temperature and used to degrease the skin, treat small wounds, and treat insect bites. Treating the underarm area with this lotion helps to cope with increased sweating.

I have already made my lotion, but have not yet poured it into a bottle.

Overgrown cucumber ice cubes

Making cucumber ice cubes is even easier than making lotion. Overripe and overgrown cucumbers, soft vegetables that have lost their gastronomic appeal, and freaks that are not suitable for conservation are used.

What needed to make cubes

cucumbers
Cutting board
Blender or food processor
Ice molds
Cellophane freezer bags.

As you can see, we do not need anything supernatural.

How to make ice cubes

My cucumbers.
We clear the skin. We don't throw away the skins.
Cut out the seeds if they are very coarse. Until we throw them away.
Cut the cucumbers into small pieces of arbitrary shape.
We send it to a food processor or mixer.
Beat well until smooth.
The resulting cucumber puree is poured into molds for making ice and sent to the freezer.
Shake the frozen cubes into a plastic bag for freezing and send to the freezer.
We repeat all the freezing steps until the prepared raw materials run out.
Use as needed throughout the year.

You can strain the crushed raw materials and freeze pure juice. But I'm satisfied with the option with pulp.

Such cubes can be used to wipe the face and décolleté. Well tones and tightens the skin.

For ease of storage and use, I put the bags of cubes in plastic containers and put them in the freezer. I take out one container at a time and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator so that the cubes are at hand.

After the preparation of the cubes, the cut out coarse seeds with the remnants of the pulp and cucumber skins remained. Let's put them to work - we'll make hydrolate water.

cucumber hydrolat water

The process of preparing hydrolate water is well described in Irina Lukshits's blog in the article "How to make hydrolate at home".

I did everything as Irina wrote. Only instead of flowers I used the remains of cucumbers, formed during the manufacture of cubes.

What you need to make hydrolat water

Leftover cucumbers. You can also use the cucumbers themselves, cutting them not very finely.
Container for cooking.
Container for collecting hydrolate water.
Strainer or steaming grate.
The lid on which the steam will condense.
Water.
Towel.
Frozen food from the freezer.

How to make hydrolat water

We put a deep bowl in a saucepan to collect hydrolate water.
Pour water into the pan so that it reaches the middle of the cup and does not fall into it when the water boils.
Put the pot on the stove and bring to a boil. Check that no water gets into the bowl.
Grind the cucumbers or use the leftovers from the cubes. It's not worth grinding too hard.
We place the cucumbers on a sieve or a grate for steaming and put on a saucepan.
Cover with upturned lid.
On the inverted lid we put a towel soaked in cold water and well wrung out.
As the towel heats up, cool it under water and return to the lid.
The process continues until the cucumber skins are the color of pickles.

At first I did as Irina writes and put a bag of chicken hearts on the lid. But they quickly melted away. Replaced them with wet towels. The process didn't get worse.

I didn't wrap it in foil. The steamer grate fits very tightly into the pot. And the lid is quite heavy and lay flat and well. It was convenient for me to control the process of preparing water. Maybe everything went faster with the foil, but I had nowhere to rush.

I did not take a photo of the boiled cucumbers, so that it was clear to what extent the process should be continued.

The last photo shows the finished hydrolat in a bowl. Yield - about 250 milliliters from three handfuls of waste.

Hydrolate water has a mild smell of cucumbers. It is very soft and very refreshing.

And if I’m talking about money on my blog, then I’ll make simple calculations now.

Economic Benefits

Waste material was put into action.
Received excellent cosmetics, saving money on buying them in the store.
We received incomparable pleasure from the process of preparing cosmetics with our own hands at home. And it's worth it.

Good luck to all of us!

What to cook from cucumbers? Cucumber Dishes fresh - a variety of salads, savory snacks, light soups and delicate sauces. Cucumber recipes are often used for healthy nutrition, for example, cucumbers with kefir for weight loss.

Freshly salted cucumbers are very popular. The recipe for lightly salted cucumbers is simple, and the crispy snack will be ready the very next day. How to cook lightly salted instant cucumbers? The recipe is simple: prepared cucumbers are poured with hot brine. And if you cook lightly salted cucumbers in cold water, they will retain their bright color. But the preparation of lightly salted cucumbers can be further simplified. Quick salted cucumbers in a bag or freshly pickled cucumbers in a bag are prepared without water. Before salting cucumbers in a bag, they only need to be washed and then sprinkled with salt. Lightly salted cucumbers (recipe in the package) will be ready in 5-6 hours. However, light-salted cucumbers in the marinator break all records for cooking speed, because they will be ready 30 minutes after laying the products! Instant pickled cucumbers can also be cooked without water. Pickled cucumbers in a bag are a fragrant spicy and very quick snack. Often pickled cucumbers for the winter. It is more convenient to harvest pickled cucumbers in liter jars. There are many options: pickled cucumbers with ketchup, pickled cucumbers with citric acid, pickled cucumbers with mustard - the recipe for pickled cucumbers with mustard seeds gives the cucumbers a particularly rich color. In addition, cucumbers canned with mustard, cucumbers in mustard filling - a recipe that is most similar to a store-bought one. Canned cucumbers with chili ketchup - a recipe for lovers of extremely spicy snacks. Connoisseurs of classic recipes will like canned cucumbers with dill and garlic and, of course, pickled cucumbers - a recipe that has been known for centuries. The modern version, barrel cucumbers in a jar, is easy to prepare. Before salting cucumbers in jars, vegetables and jars must be washed very thoroughly, then they can be stored all winter. For a change, you can cook pickled cucumbers with mustard. Pickled cucumbers are a recipe for a traditional snack, and dishes with pickled cucumbers will help diversify the winter holiday table.

The recipes of our site will help you learn how to pickle cucumbers in a bag, how to lightly salt cucumbers in a bag, and how to quickly cook lightly salted cucumbers in mineral water, how to pickle cucumbers in jars, how to pickle cucumbers in jars and how to pickle cucumbers with crunch, how to cook cucumbers with mustard for the winter, cucumbers with garlic and cucumbers in tomato sauce. Step-by-step instructions will tell you how to pickle cucumbers in a bag, help you properly prepare pickles in a bag, help you choose the right pickle dishes. Canned cucumber recipes, pickled cucumber recipe, pickled cucumber recipe - choose to your taste.

Harvesting for the winter from overgrown cucumbers.

To begin with, you need to prepare everything, because. the preparation itself is done quickly.

5 kg cucumbers - wash, cut each in half first, then slices
2 kg tomato
1kg bulg pepper
2 heads of large garlic - through a crusher, or finely chopped
2 pcs hot pepper

Wash the tomatoes, peel the tails, wash the pepper too, peel, scroll the tomatoes in a meat grinder with Bulgarian and hot peppers
Put the tomato mass on the fire, immediately put in it
1 cup of sugar
1 cup rast. oils
2 tablespoons salt.
boil.
as soon as it boils, throw cucumbers in there, bring to a boil again, detect 3 minutes, this is so as not to overcook the cucumbers, and they remain a little crispy
add garlic - record 1 minute
add 3 tbsp. essences - mark 3 minutes.
turn everything off and immediately pour into hot jars. under a fur coat Do not turn)

Another way to put the yellows into action. In theory and in composition, it should turn out very tasty, and they are pickled here not with vinegar, but with citric acid, which also speaks as a fat plus to this preparation.

The composition of the preparation of cucumbers

1 kg cucumbers
2 medium carrots
2 bell peppers (different colors)
5 bulbs
1 head of garlic
½ st. spoons of salt
½ tsp citric acid,
a bunch of dill greens (you can add fresh seeds).

Preparing cucumber blanks

Peel the cucumbers from the peel and seeds, cut into thin strips or chop on a coarse grater.

Finely chop the prepared carrots, peppers and onions. Combine everything, add dill, salt, citric acid.

Lecho with cucumbers

Pass through a meat grinder 1.25 kg of tomatoes and 0.5 kg of sweet pepper, add 100 g of sugar, 100 g of 6% vinegar, 100 g of vegetable oil, 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of salt (with a slide). Boil for 15 minutes, then lower 2.5 kg of cucumbers, cut into circles. Cook for another 10 minutes, add the head of garlic, crushed through a garlic press.

When hot, spread the lecho into prepared jars, roll up, wrap and leave until completely cooled.

Leave the vegetable mass for an hour so that the lemon juice stands out.

Then bring the vegetables to a boil and simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes.

Arrange the vegetable mass in sterilized jars and roll up with boiled lids.

Turn the jars over, wrap and let cool gradually.

Cucumber tongues....

2kg cucumbers
1l of water
1h l lemon to-you
5 carnations
5 peas fragrant and black pepper
5 tbsp sugar
3 tsp salt
My cucumbers, peel, cut lengthwise into plates 2 cm thick, remove the seeds, put in a saucepan.
Dissolve lemon in water, sugar, salt + cloves, pepper ... Bring to a boil, pour cucumbers with brine and leave for 10 minutes ... Transfer cucumbers to jars and pour THIS same brine, sterilize for 30 minutes, roll up ..

Salad "Kruglyashki" .

3 kg of cucumbers, 5-7 large onions, preferably purple varieties, a bunch of dill, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 glass of vegetable oil (150 g can be used), 1 glass of 9% vinegar, 100 g of salt.
Cucumbers cut into slices, onion rings (0.5 mm), finely chop the dill. Put the products in a saucepan, add salt, sugar, oil and vinegar. Let stand for 5 hours (stirring occasionally), then decompose into 0.5-0.7 liter pre-steamed jars, sterilize for 15 minutes, roll up, wrap.

"Fingers".

Cucumbers (2 kg) cut into pieces - “fingers”, and cucumbers can be taken and overripe, you just need to peel them and remove the seeds, put them in a cup. Chop the onion into half rings (300g, purple varieties) and grate the carrots (300g) on a Korean grater (you can finely chop or cut into circles with a special corrugated knife) ..
Put vegetables in cucumbers. Add 1.5 tbsp to a cup. top with salt, 0.5 cup sugar, 1 cup odorless vegetable oil, 0.5 cup 6% vinegar. Boil the mixture after boiling for 10 minutes. Roll into pre-steamed jars. Wrap up.

Salad "Nezhenskiy"

In jars of 0.5 l, previously thoroughly washed, fold
onion, cut into half rings,
half a bay leaf
peppercorns 5 pcs.
allspice 2 pcs.
garlic - 1 clove, chopped
cloves (if you like)
cucumbers, cut into rings,
on top again onion rings

Add to each jar
Sugar - 2 teaspoons (heaped)
Salt - 1 teaspoon (with a small slide)
Vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. spoons
Pour boiling water over, cover with lids and let stand for 20 minutes (however you are in a hurry, this time must be kept so that the cucumbers turn out to be tender and crispy). Sterilize for 15 minutes, roll up, if in doubt, you can cover with a terry towel until it cools, but my jars are already stored perfectly without a basement.

Overgrown Cucumber Salad...

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Cut 4 kg of cucumbers into circles, add 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 tbsp. salt (40g.), 1 tbsp. vegetable oils, 1 tbsp. vinegar (9%), 1 tbsp. ground black pepper, 3 cloves of garlic (on a fine grater), herbs (optional), usually dill and parsley (dill seeds are also put 2 tbsp) ...
Mix everything and leave for 4 hours. Next, put in jars (0.5 l.), Sterilize for 15 minutes and roll up. ALL!!!

Cucumbers "Lick your fingers" ...

4 kg cucumbers cut lengthwise
100 gr. salt
1 cup sugar
1 stack oil
1 cup vinegar
2 tbsp of black peppercorns (crushed in a mortar) NOT GROUND!!! There may be both crushed and whole ones, it's okay.
2 tbsp grated garlic
1 heaping teaspoon of dry mustard
You put everything in a basin, mix it and stand for 3-4 hours. All this gives a lot of brine.
Put tightly in sterilized jars, fill with brine. Put in hot water and sterilize for 5-7 minutes after boiling. Roll up (you can under a blanket).
DO NOT TURN BANKS!!!

chopped cucumbers in their own juice

Ingredients

Fresh cucumbers 4 kg.
granulated sugar 1 tbsp.
vegetable oil 1 tbsp.
table vinegar 1 tbsp.
1/3 st. salt
1 large bunch of parsley and dill
4 medium onions

Cooking method

Cut cucumbers into rings, onions into half rings, finely chop the greens.
Mix everything, add sugar, salt, vinegar and vegetable oil. Leave for two hours for the cucumbers to give juice. After that, the salad can already be eaten, but if you want to make preparations for the winter, then ...
Prepare jars, wash and sterilize them. For this number of cucumbers, approximately 4 pieces will be required. 700-800 ml.
Arrange the appetizer in jars and sterilize, after boiling, keep on fire for 5 minutes. Twist the jar, turn it over and put it in a warm blanket for the night.

"Cucumbers" Fly away "

Fresh cucumber - 4 kg
Granulated sugar - 1 stack.
Vinegar (9%) - 1 stack.
Vegetable oil - 1 stack.
Black pepper (ground) - 1 tbsp. l.
Salt - 2 tbsp. l.
Garlic (heads) - 3 pcs

Bon appetit!!!

"Salted Cucumbers" Crispy ""

Summer is the time for fresh greens and global fortification. It is for this reason that with the onset of the first warm days, fresh cucumber dishes become very popular. Juicy, crunchy and incredibly healthy ... It's hard to find a person who would not love these vegetables. And the most interesting thing is that you can cook a huge number of a wide variety of culinary masterpieces from them. After all, cucumber dishes are not only ordinary vegetable salads. This is also a great variety of gourmet snacks, vitamin cocktails, healthy soups and even desserts.

Meet Mr Cucumber!

Surprisingly, the cucumber is directly related to the gourd family of plants. But the origin of the name is associated with several historical facts. So, for example, in Sanskrit the word "cucumber" is very similar to the name of an Indian prince who had more than 60 thousand children. But the cucumber itself has a lot of seeds inside it.

The word “cucumber” itself is of ancient Greek origin and means “unripe” in translation. As an agricultural crop, the cucumber appeared in India about 6,000 years ago. By the way, at the foot of the Himalayas, cucumbers still grow in their natural environment. In ancient times, the ancient Egyptians loved to feast on these vegetables. And now dishes from fresh cucumbers are popular all over the globe. From this vegetable you can cook a huge number of a wide variety of salads and cold appetizers. It is noteworthy that cucumber is not only tasty, but also healthy. It's time to talk about the benefits of fresh cucumbers and the chemical composition of this vegetable.

All the most useful in the garden

A cucumber is approximately 95% water. Everything else is vitamins of groups B, C and PP, as well as carotene, fiber and various macro- and microelements useful for the human body. Cucumber contains a large amount of organic substances that contribute to better digestion and absorption of other products.

Cooking method

Using a whisk, mix the ingredients needed for the sauce. Then cut the cucumbers into large pieces across into the required number of barrels and remove the core with a dessert spoon. The pulp should be chopped approximately like cutting cucumbers into okroshka, and mixed with chopped avocado, cherry tomatoes and lettuce. The mass should be seasoned with salt and black pepper.

Put the kegs on a wide dish, season with the prepared mass and pour over the sauce. Boil the shrimp and put one piece in each barrel. The dish is decorated with drops of the remaining sauce and fresh herbs. It is not only beautiful, but also delicious.

How to store fresh cucumbers?

This question is asked by many housewives who want to preserve all the benefits and taste of vegetables. In winter, finding a fresh cucumber is not difficult, but keeping it in its original form is not so easy. It turns out that there are some practical tips that will extend the life of fresh vegetables:

Pour water into a jar and place the cucumbers there with their tails down. Put the container in the refrigerator and change the water in it every day.
Pour vinegar into an enameled pan (about 1 cm), put a grate on which to put cucumbers, which should not come into contact with the liquid. During the evaporation process, the vinegar will create a special environment that prevents the rotting process.
Wash and dry cucumbers thoroughly. Beat the egg white and coat the surface of the vegetables with it. The film will not allow moisture to evaporate, so a fresh vegetable can remain just as tasty and healthy for some time.

The happy owners of dry and cool cellars were a little more fortunate. They do not have to wonder how to store fresh cucumbers - just place them in an enameled or ceramic container and sprinkle with dry sand. So vegetables can lie for a whole month.

What else can be prepared from fresh cucumber?

All kinds of soups and various snacks, salads and vegetable cocktails, stews and even desserts - the list can be continued with dressings and sauces, gourmet delicacies and delicious recipes. Even the most ordinary sandwiches, decorated with a slice of fresh cucumber, will be much tastier and healthier. Fresh cucumber dishes are a huge space for culinary imagination.

This vegetable goes well with a wide variety of ingredients, so every housewife can experiment in the kitchen and surprise her household with an unusual salad of fresh cucumbers and eggs, seasoned with an exquisite French-style sauce.

Recipes for cucumbers for the winter are very diverse. Cucumbers can be preserved whole and sliced, in salads, and even make cucumber jam. But almost every recipe for seaming cucumbers can be described either as a recipe for pickling cucumbers (sourdough) or as a recipe for pickled cucumbers.

Canning cucumbers without vinegar is called salting or sourdough. How to pickle cucumbers? Before pickling cucumbers, keep in mind that pickling cucumbers takes time - pickling cucumbers occurs within 3-10 days. Pickling cucumbers in a cold way - soaking cucumbers with cooled brine. And for quick salting, the pickle for cucumbers is preheated. Salting cucumbers with vodka allows you to preserve their color. The dry salting of cucumbers is very interesting - in this case, cucumbers sprinkled with salt secrete juice, water is not used. Pickling cucumbers in the classic version is pickling cucumbers in a barrel, preferably oak. The recipe for barrel cucumbers is simple, but it is the wooden barrel that gives the cucumbers a special taste - pickled cucumbers cannot be confused with anything! Pickled cucumbers are often stored without additional heat treatment in a cool, dry place. But the preservation of cucumbers is also possible - after salting they are placed in jars, poured with hot brine and rolled up. Pickling cucumbers with mustard gives an interesting taste and a guarantee that the cucumber blanks will not “explode”.

Pickling cucumbers - twisting cucumbers with the addition of vinegar. How to pickle cucumbers? Marinade for cucumbers is brought to a boil, then the cucumbers previously laid out in jars are poured into them and sterilized. You can also pickle cucumbers with citric acid.

Pickled crispy cucumbers, delicious pickled cucumbers with mustard are indispensable on the winter holiday table. A cucumber salad for the winter will also come to the aid of the hostess. Canning cucumber salads, pickling cucumbers for the winter, pickling cucumbers in jars, canning cucumbers - the recipes for all these preparations are varied and allow us to diversify our menu.

From the recipes on our website you will learn detailed answers to questions: how to roll cucumbers, how to pickle cucumbers in jars, how to pickle cucumbers correctly, how to make canned cucumber salad, how to roll cucumbers in tomato sauce. And also how to make crunchy canned cucumbers, how to spin pickled cucumbers for the winter, how to cook pickled crispy cucumbers and pickled cucumbers for the winter, and even how to close canned cucumbers with ketchup and canned cucumbers with mustard. After all, we have hundreds of different recipes for cucumber blanks, canned cucumber recipes, including a recipe for sour cucumbers, a recipe for pickled cucumbers, a recipe for delicious pickled cucumbers, barrel cucumbers, a recipe for pickled cucumbers ...