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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
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from Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words: Old wives' tale. All mushrooms emerge over a period and can take many days to get to a noticeable size. There is a patch of field mushrooms at my workplace. Each year I pick them and each year I have to balance size against probability of maggot infestation. You see, as Jacko Alltrades says, they take some days from first appearing as dots to maturing into huge caps, meanwhile the flies are busily laying their eggs all over them. The trick is to allow the 'shrooms to expand sufficiently to gain flavour (little flavour in peedie ones) but not allow time for the fly eggs to develop into burrowing maggots. I suggest that the early morning picking idea is to take them when very young before flies have a chance to damage them. Alas, if one does that one inevitably sacrifices flavour and weight. -- Cheers, Compo How do you know when your bagpipes need tuning? |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words: Old wives' tale. All mushrooms emerge over a period and can take many days to get to a noticeable size. There is a patch of field mushrooms at my workplace. Each year I pick them and each year I have to balance size against probability of maggot infestation. You see, as Jacko Alltrades says, they take some days from first appearing as dots to maturing into huge caps, meanwhile the flies are busily laying their eggs all over them. The trick is to allow the 'shrooms to expand sufficiently to gain flavour (little flavour in peedie ones) but not allow time for the fly eggs to develop into burrowing maggots. I suggest that the early morning picking idea is to take them when very young before flies have a chance to damage them. Alas, if one does that one inevitably sacrifices flavour and weight. -- Cheers, Compo How do you know when your bagpipes need tuning? |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words: Old wives' tale. All mushrooms emerge over a period and can take many days to get to a noticeable size. There is a patch of field mushrooms at my workplace. Each year I pick them and each year I have to balance size against probability of maggot infestation. You see, as Jacko Alltrades says, they take some days from first appearing as dots to maturing into huge caps, meanwhile the flies are busily laying their eggs all over them. The trick is to allow the 'shrooms to expand sufficiently to gain flavour (little flavour in peedie ones) but not allow time for the fly eggs to develop into burrowing maggots. I suggest that the early morning picking idea is to take them when very young before flies have a chance to damage them. Alas, if one does that one inevitably sacrifices flavour and weight. -- Cheers, Compo How do you know when your bagpipes need tuning? |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words: Old wives' tale. All mushrooms emerge over a period and can take many days to get to a noticeable size. There is a patch of field mushrooms at my workplace. Each year I pick them and each year I have to balance size against probability of maggot infestation. You see, as Jacko Alltrades says, they take some days from first appearing as dots to maturing into huge caps, meanwhile the flies are busily laying their eggs all over them. The trick is to allow the 'shrooms to expand sufficiently to gain flavour (little flavour in peedie ones) but not allow time for the fly eggs to develop into burrowing maggots. I suggest that the early morning picking idea is to take them when very young before flies have a chance to damage them. Alas, if one does that one inevitably sacrifices flavour and weight. -- Cheers, Compo How do you know when your bagpipes need tuning? |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:05:30 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:
and the flavour isn't as good. You and I are clearly familiar with very different kinds of mushroom. To me, the small, unopened button mushrooms have no flavour worth talking about, and large, open field mushrooms or boletus make heavenly slobbery omelettes. Yup. Absolutely. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:05:30 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:
and the flavour isn't as good. You and I are clearly familiar with very different kinds of mushroom. To me, the small, unopened button mushrooms have no flavour worth talking about, and large, open field mushrooms or boletus make heavenly slobbery omelettes. Yup. Absolutely. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:05:30 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:
and the flavour isn't as good. You and I are clearly familiar with very different kinds of mushroom. To me, the small, unopened button mushrooms have no flavour worth talking about, and large, open field mushrooms or boletus make heavenly slobbery omelettes. Yup. Absolutely. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:05:30 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:
and the flavour isn't as good. You and I are clearly familiar with very different kinds of mushroom. To me, the small, unopened button mushrooms have no flavour worth talking about, and large, open field mushrooms or boletus make heavenly slobbery omelettes. Yup. Absolutely. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
"Chris" ] wrote in message
]... Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning? -- Chris For breakfast ! D |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
"Chris" ] wrote in message
]... Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning? -- Chris For breakfast ! D |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
"Chris" ] wrote in message
]... Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning? -- Chris For breakfast ! D |
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Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning?
"Chris" ] wrote in message
]... Why do people collect mushrooms early in the morning? -- Chris For breakfast ! D |
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