"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message
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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

When I pick a mushroom (for mushroom, read anything with a cap atop a
stipe) and it has uninvited guests in it, I put it gills-down (or
tubes-down) in a likely place, either in the garden, or under a tree
with which it associates, just in the hope of having 'similar
problems'...

I've tried that. It's never worked.

I started cooking the uninvited guests along with the mushrooms, no-one
would know. Even I forget by the time I'm eating them.

It's not recommended. Whatever mushrooms have been, the products of
decay and the visitors' leavings *MIGHT* develop into dangerous
alkaloids.

Can you guarantee that you have never or will never consume 'visitors'
leavings' on any item of food you take in?


This isn't my theory, but advice from eminent mycologists.

My friend who said that I was wasting good food by eschewing maggots in
blewits was one such, he practised what he preached as a professional
agricultural advisor and died at 98 years old in an accident involving a
tractor.

Mary