{"id":170,"date":"2009-03-02T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forthillfarm.com\/news\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2014-04-11T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:58:35","slug":"cucumbers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/?page_id=170","title":{"rendered":"Cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Everyone is familiar with the refreshing flavor of cold, crisp, summer cucumbers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>We grow a few different varieties at Fort Hill Farm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>See varieties below for details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Storage and Handling:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Store in your refrigerator crisper drawer in a loosely closed plastic bag for up to a week.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cucumbers are best eaten within the week for maximum crispness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Culinary Uses:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Eat cucumbers alone, on salads or slice onto sandwiches.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Add into cold summer soups, and make different ethnic condiments like Raita and Tzatziki.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Varieties:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">You\u2019ll find your average cucumber at Fort Hill Farm, but you may also see\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tasty Jade Cucumber:<\/span> these are an English type of cucumber.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are long, thin, practically seedless and spineless.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Suyo Long Cucumber:<\/span> these are an Asian type of cucumber.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are long, sometimes twisted into funny shapes, ridged and spiky.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The skin on these cucumbers is very tender and absolutely do not need to be peeled.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are wonderfully crisp.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is familiar with the refreshing flavor of cold, crisp, summer cucumbers.\u00a0 We grow a few different varieties at Fort Hill Farm.\u00a0 See varieties below for details. \u00a0 Storage and Handling: Store in your refrigerator crisper drawer in a loosely closed plastic bag for up to a week.\u00a0 Cucumbers are best eaten within the week&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}