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Post by Veem on Oct 14, 2022 11:47:50 GMT 1
Following on from cernunnus' post on his haul of ceps (in the weather thread), I thought it worth opening a thread on mushrooms in its own right. I've been gathering field mushrooms in the horses' paddock for over a week now. The other day I saw what I thought was another group but as I approached I could see they were different; the caps were more domed, like an egg, and the stems were far fatter. They had pure white caps though, so we discounted ceps. Biggles took some to the pharmacy where they were pronounced inedible. I consulted my cousin, who is an amateur expert and she recognised them as horse mushrooms which they have and eat without a problem.
Since then the horses seem on a mission to knock them all over!
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Post by exile on Oct 14, 2022 12:05:37 GMT 1
The little I know about wild mushroom hunting was learnt from a German colleague who would never harvest anything with gills - as in mushrooms but not ceps. Too easy to make a mistake, he told me.
As an example the destroying angel looks exactly like a field mushroom until the cup fully opens and reveals white rather than pink or brown gills.
Edit to add: Just looked up horse mushroom and it says its gills start out pink to white before darkening - so you see how easy it is to make a mistake and that perhaps explains the chemist's adjudication.
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Oct 14, 2022 13:01:51 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 13:01:51 GMT 1
Mushrooms make me fart.
Is that just me or do you mushroom 🍄 experts have the same issue?
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Post by Veem on Oct 14, 2022 14:31:21 GMT 1
I expect we'd all fart Mysty if we ate the mushroom you posted!
@ exile the horse mushrooms the pharmacist 'identified' were young and the gills still pale pink to white.
Has anyone else seen the octopus mushroom? We have those and they are really weird.
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 14, 2022 18:19:22 GMT 1
We get quite a few octupi , you usually smell them before you see them , a bit like rotten meat .
They are an exotic import from Australia
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Post by Nifty on Oct 14, 2022 19:54:11 GMT 1
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 14, 2022 20:15:14 GMT 1
Australian mushrooms ?
Not in France.
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Post by pcpa on Oct 14, 2022 20:56:33 GMT 1
I saw & heard my 86 year old neighbour setting out on his old lawnmower that he has converted to a mobility scooter complete with gyrophare, I thought he was going into the field behind our houses to keep up to date on my progress (My name is Michael Caine and I'm a nosey neighbour!) but he was gone a very long time and I could hear the put putting from a long distance away. He returned with 2 large cagettes of cèpes on the back, so full it looked like the mower was going to tip over like the Flintstones in the dinosaur rib joint  He wanted me to take one but I explained how I was living and cooking and that I could not even make a dent in the amount he wanted me to take, then I realised it would be la politesse to accept some so I took two massive ones, probably 25cm in diameter and cooked them how he recommended. I have never had cèpes before and was completely bowled over by the taste, I was in heaven and bitterly regretted not having accepted the cagette, I ate the second one the next day, taste almost as good but it was rubbery, I probably should not have put it in the fridge. So I am now a convert to cèpes and will have to buy a drone to send up to see where he potters off to next time for his bounty, he clearly knows all the good places and will take the secret of their locations with him to the afterlife. |
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Post by Nifty on Oct 15, 2022 1:29:59 GMT 1
Australian mushrooms ?
Not in France.
Perhaps not exactly the same species, but, (yes but no but yes) there is a type of mushroom that looks very similar to the normal edible mushroom in just about all respects that it can be mistaken for one. They grew on our land at Carol in the Ariege along with many other species.One main edibility test was that if scratched or bruised, the flesh of the mushroom turns yellow. Besides rough pasture we also had about 10 ha of woods. OH once found three blokes stealing cepes. Judging by the way that oh described the situation to me the intruders must have had many kilograms away. There were other species which, were it not so early in the morning and my memory was better, I could wax lyrical about like a real Frenchman, perhaps another time. |
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Post by Polarengineer on Oct 15, 2022 7:13:22 GMT 1
We are down by the head with coulemelle mushrooms here and in my opinion far better tasting than cepes. It is wise to test the skirt is loose from the stem otherwise you have the wrong sort.
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Post by houpla on Oct 15, 2022 7:24:32 GMT 1
My first brush with cèpes was similar to pcpa's. Living in a caravan while a friend and I did the fosse /t/e, my neighbour trundled down with a huge basket of mushrooms. She insisted that I take them, but neglected to tell me about the precise and essential cooking method. Bless, I suppose it was inconceivable to a French country person that I'd never seen them before in my life Soooo...decided to make an omelette. Sliced and cooked them as you would field mushrooms. Big yuk! Like eating slugs (I imagine). Couldn't see what all the fuss was about To compound my sin, I had to leave the basket-nearly-full outside overnight and we had a thunderstorm. Oups....they're like sponges, aren't they?  She must have been keeping a beady on them, because she's not given me any since. A couple of years later, house duly built, my lovely, elderly friend in the Gers taught me how to cook them properly. They're alright, I suppose, but I prefer girolles and even field mushrooms which grow in the borders when I can get my hands on WRFM. |
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 15, 2022 8:20:00 GMT 1
We are down by the head with coulemelle mushrooms here and in my opinion far better tasting than cepes. It is wise to test the skirt is loose from the stem otherwise you have the wrong sort. We have piles of coulemelles also , never tried them . Cepes are top , along with girolles. |
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Post by Nifty on Oct 15, 2022 10:02:49 GMT 1
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Post by spectrum on Oct 16, 2022 8:14:07 GMT 1
You really need to try Shaggy Ink Caps for a taste experience  |
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Post by Nifty on Oct 16, 2022 10:37:01 GMT 1
Why not try the real thing with Psilocybe.
A study by scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College finds that Psilocybin Fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus.
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She must have been keeping a beady on them, because she's not given me any since.
