Cold Cucumber Soup by bookseller

Peel the cukes, seed them if necessary, and salt and de-water them. Mix with yogurt or buttermilk (yogurt more delish, frankly, particularly good Greek yogurt), walnuts, garlic, fresh dill, and chicken broth in proportions that taste good. Chuck briefly in the blender -- there will be some small chunks, but that's fine. Eat.

[Go fairly easy on the garlic; it gains strength over time. And if you leave out the chicken broth and walnuts, you have a fair approximation of Greek cucumber salad which is also Hungarian and Swedish cucumber salad, in which case the addition of some sliced radishes and/or sliced (raw) mushrooms would not go amiss. But I'd make the soup.]