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Like a Viking chieftain, they go into the next life in my flaming boat.Excellent, now what bikes have you got I can have first dibs on?
Awfully sorry.
Like a Viking chieftain, they go into the next life in my flaming boat.Excellent, now what bikes have you got I can have first dibs on?
Don't bother slomo, if they were any good for consumption someone would be growing them commercially alreadyThank you dear 'Shroomsters for all your advice. I've ordered the book by Mr Phillips. I supposed I'm attracted by the hunter-gatherer urge that still lurks in my primitive body. There's a magic about going out in a small boat with a fishing rod to catch your supper. No input from the industrial food industry and the supermarkets. I got the same buzz from that day seeking out 'shrooms in Scotland.
Truffles?Don't bother slomo, if they were any good for consumption someone would be growing them commercially already
The only rule of thumb that holds good is that there are no rules of thumb! All of those applied at once might decrease your likelihood of picking something dangerous, but none of them works in isolation and taken individually they could be wildly misleading. You can peel death caps (apparently, though I never have), and all sorts of mushrooms grow in association with trees. Some good edibles have bizarre colour responses such as turning bright blue when cut, and some very dangerous things grow in fields. Your red-staining mushroom might be Agaricus silvaticus, which is edible. There is at least one deadly red-staining shroom, and your pale gill rule might arguably protect you from that one - but its pinky gills can be a similar colour to a young field mushroom.If you're looking for simple mushrooms, there's a simple rules of thumb my dad taught us when we were kids...don't pick any near trees or bushes, only in open grassland..don't pick ones with pale undersides and make sure they peel.
The only time I made a mistake was not heeding dad's ADVICE and saw what looked in every way like a mushroom, but near bushes. Peeled OK, dark undersides...but when I fried them they kinda went red on the underside. Straight in the bin.
Syerston airfield, we used to find massive field mushroom, a foot in diameter and an inch thick. Anyone who tells you button mushrooms are best is simply talking rubbish, the juice alone from those field mushrooms was a delight.
Puffball..tried them...Meh...a strange taste.
Posted these before, but for the sake of the discussion...
Saw these from several hundred yards away on a ride one day, but I had to cycle about 5 miles to get to them (other side of a river)
Once I got there, they were puffballs, like this one..
Perhaps their size, and therefore maturity is what made the taste somewhat...err....woody ? Perhaps younger specimens might taste better.
As the above photos show, they were growing in a stubble filed, so it must have been this time of year. I might venture out there again...
If only it had been wearing a helmet.I ran with it to show my mum, tripped and went flying, and shattered it into a thousand pieces.
Holy Christ, I'm still quivering at the thought....I once found one way bigger than my head
Complete strangers? Guinea pigs...He made it into a fabulous stew that fed 6 people!
Oh, bums!The New Forest has just banned all mushroom picking, thank to the commercial pickers now that's a poo
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/147...nce_total_ban_on_New_Forest_mushroom_picking/