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Mizeria (Polish pronunciation: [miˈzɛ.rja] ⓘ) is a salad which originated in Poland [1] and consists of thinly sliced or grated cucumbers, often with sweet sour cream or kefir and vinegar, although in some cases oil. Other possible ingredients include onions, pepper or lemon juice, sugar, dill, chives, mint or parsley.
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[2] [4] [5] However, in spite of the name, vinegar is often omitted in modern cooking, and sunflower or other vegetable oil is just used. [3] Some cooks add the brine from the pickled cucumbers or sauerkraut. Along with Olivier salad and dressed herring, vinegret is served as zakuska on celebration tables in Russophone communities.
A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States, Canada and Australia and a gherkin (/ ˈ ɡ ɜːr k ɪ n / GUR-kin) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment.
Pickling with vinegar likely originated in ancient Mesopotamia around 2400 BCE. [6] [7] There is archaeological evidence of cucumbers being pickled in the Tigris Valley in 2030 BCE. [8] Pickling vegetables in vinegar continued to develop in the Middle East region before spreading to the Maghreb, to Sicily and to Spain.
Other ingredients, such as lime or lemon juice, fresh cilantro (coriander or dhania), parsley, avocado, or cucumber, and in some cases gin or vodka, can also be added.Some recipe variations also call for habanero or Scotch bonnet peppers, with a touch of ground cayenne pepper.
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The 16th-century artist and poet Bronzino sings the praises of onions with oil and vinegar served with toast [1] and, a page later, speaks of a salad of onions, purslane, and cucumbers.