SC - Menagier's Champignons
Wade Hutchison
whutchis at bucknell.edu
Tue Mar 16 10:32:36 PST 1999
I've always interpreted this as mushrooms that have only been
in existence for one night - as in fresh, young mushrooms.
Also known as "button" mushrooms, since the spore-pod bits
haven't opened yet. (closed above?) Don't think you could
find those unless you grew them yourself, though.
-----wade/Gille
At 12:37 PM 3/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out something about the mushroom recipe
>that Menagier has in the pastry section. The Pichon translation
>says
>
> CHAMPIGNONS d'une nuit sont les meilleurs, et sont
> petits et vermeils dedans, clos dessus...
>
>Which, I believe, translates roughly to the English
>
> MUSHROOMS of one night are the best, and are small
> and red inside, closed above...
>
>When it says "of one night" what does that mean? Does it refer
>only to when you picked them? For example, I picked
>mushrooms last night, prepared them today, and baked them in
>a pastry today.
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