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11-09-2004, 09:28 PM

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Delicious - but discard any bits

You know about 'shrooms too?!

Been into mushrooms since I was ten. In the Scouts my nickname was 'Fungus'.

Last year I went on a fungus foray and discovered beefsteak fungus
which is lovely and bloody and tastes of lemon. Then I was told that
there are six fungi worth eating in England and that beefsteak fungus
is one of them

IMO beefsteak fungus is edible, but little more. There are hundreds of
better culinary delights in the fun gus whirled.

What are the others?

About 33 varieties of Agaricus; more than a dozen Boleti; Shaggy ink
caps; chanterelles, girolles and horn of plenty (properly, what is
called 'chanterelle' in this country is a 'girolle': the chanterelle is
a smaller brown and yellow relative.); Amanita rubescens, A. s****a, A.
solitaria (but you have to be *VERY* *VERY* sure!); Amanitopsis fulva,
A. fulva; (Lepiota) Parasol mushroom, shaggy parasol; Lepiota mastoidea;
Many Tricholomacæ, esp blewit/blueleg/bluestalk, wood blewit, St.
George's mushroom, (Tricholomopsis) Plums and custard; Sperassis crispa
- looks like a big bath sponge; many puffballs; Hedgehog - Hydnum
rapandum; Leucopaxillus giganteus; clouded agaric; aniseed toadstool,
common funnel cup; deceiver and amathyst deceiver; honey fungus; Pluteus
umbrosus, P. cervinus; butter cap; velvet shank (but be careful not to
confuse it with the poisonous sulphur tuft); many Hygrophorus species;
meadow wax cap; blackening wax cap; scarlet hood; crimson wax cap; fairy
ring mushroom (Marasmius oreades); Mycena pura; chicken of the woods;
Lactarius piperatus (dried and ground for flavouring); Saffron milk cap
(Lactarius deliciosus); Lactarius volemus; several more Lactarii, but
there are several poisonous relatives; dozens of Russalæ, (39 listed as
edible in Phillips) esp charcoal burner - but... ; morels; some of the
club, coral and bracket fungi; Jew's ear; scarlet elf cup and orange
peel fungus.

The French eat the dried stipes of the stinkhorn, but then, the French
would, innit.

Field mushroom
um
Chantarelle do you get that here or only in France?

In wet and usually soft water areas IME. The west of Scotland is a
marvellous place for them - if by chanterelle you mean 'girolle' -
yellow and trumpet-shaped, branched veins instead of gills, smells of
peaches/apricots.

Wood blewitts I think was one we found on the fungus foray

Excellent mushroom!

Tuffles

Not easily found - unless you know how.

Shaggy ink caps

I generally eat only the shaggy ink cap, though there are a few more
Coprinus species which can be eaten. The common ink cap has horrid
effects on you if you
a) have any alcohol in your system
b) take alcohol with it
c) consume alcohol for up to three days after eating them.

Best avoided, unless you are TT.

???

Yes, now that one is delicious, but no-one knows where it grows.

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