SC - mushrooms?

[Par Leijonhufvud]

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> Anyone who have seen anything on what kinds of mushrooms was used in
> period?
Mary Ella Milham's translation of Platina says:
...The red ones are safest.  Next, the white ones are not 
disapproved, along with their stalks.  A third kind, which they call 
sow fungus, is very convenient for poison.  It is agreed that Anneus 
Serenus, a prefect of Nero, and certain soldiers died from this.

It is allowed in cooking, when it pleases the gluttonous, to use 
certain recipes.  They have to be cooked with the juicy part of the 
stalk by which they cling to earth, first in water with bread crumbs 
and then with pears and the shoots and stems of pears.  Some put 
in garlic, which is thought to counteract poisons.  Boiled and 
salted, they are fried in oil or fat.  When fried they are covered with 
a green sauce which is called sauce or with garlic sauce.  Some 
even cook them with the skin removed or with the upper cap filled 
with salt and oil, upside down on the coals, and eat them sprinkled 
with pepper or cinnamon. ...
Aeddan ap Trahaearn
Shire of Mooneschadowe
Kingdom of Ansteorra