To prepare the cucumber, pare with a handy slicer and cut from it a section three-fourths an inch thick; pare this round and round very thin and roll loosely to form a cup.

Dispose this on the top of the fish and fill with dressing.

(Use a pastry bag and tube.) Cut the rest of the cucumber in thin slices.
VARIOUS COMPOUND SALADS.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries .-- _Motley._ Three several salads have I sacrificed, bedew'd with precious oil and vinegar .-- _Beaumont and Fletcher._ =Sweetbread-and-Cucumber Salad.= Arrange the leaves of a head of cabbage lettuce loosely upon a serving-dish, without destroying its shape.

Have ready a pair of sweetbreads cooked in salted, acidulated water twenty minutes, and cooled and cut in small cubes and marinated; also the same quantity of cucumber cut in dice, chilled in ice water and dried upon a cloth.

Drain the French dressing from the sweetbread and scatter the bits of sweetbread and cucumber through the lettuce.