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Old Fashioned Wilted Cucumber Salad
"This is one of the ways my mother, Caroline Hutyera, made her cucumber salad. She was an immigrant from Austria-Hungary. It's a European style."
Note: requires a straight-edge slicer that can make paper-thin slices.
Source: Elsie Loeser, Chicago native
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