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Eden Farms chose the Continental Cucumber name because they felt it was an improvement on the longer Dutch Telegraph Cucumber name.
Continental Cucumbers are acid free, long, thin edible skinned green, ribbed cucumber that is individually wrapped to maintain freshness. Small seed cavity with maximum fruit flesh.
Eden Farms Continental Cucumbers do not need to be peeled as the skin is soft to the palate.
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Eden Farms Continental Cucumbers do not need to have the skin scored with a fork, it is already decorative with ridged green skin.
Facts about Eden Farms Continental Cucumbers
- They are eaten green but are actually ripe when yellow.
- Seed cavity is small and the seed is sweet.
- Are 96% water.
- Are classified as a fruit.
- Are not poisonous even though people used to scrape our skin to let the poison out.
- Continental Cucumbers are the longest and thinnest of all cucumber varieties.
- Continental Cucumbers provide small amounts of vitamins and mineral to our diet.
- They have very few kilojoules (30-50kj/100g).
Quality
Continental Cucumbers age faster if they are stored at temperatures above 50 degrees.
They should not be stored with tomatoes, apples or melons.
The plastic wrap is used to retain the moisture and freshness of the Eden Farms Continental Cucumber
so keep them in their plastic wrap in the fridge.
History of Cucumbers
Cucumbers are believed to be one of the oldest cultivated plants. They are said to have come from India where they are supposed to have been grown for 3,000 years.
The Egyptian Pharaohs were supposed to be partial to cucumbers and the Hebrews took cucumbers with them into the dessert.
The ancient Greeks and Romans used cucumbers. The Emperor Tiberius liked cucumbers so much he had movable garden beds to move the cucumber plants away from the frost and cold. It is said that he ate cucumbers every day.
The growth and use of cucumbers traveled from Italy and Greece to Europe and the Middle East and into China by the 2nd century AD.
Europeans took cucumbers to North America in the 16th century and there are records of them being grown in Montreal and Florida.
Cucumber seeds came to Australia with the first fleet as the first chaplain of New South Wales, Rev. Richard Johnson, grew them in his Sydney garden in 1789.
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