SC - mushrooms

[Gwynydd of Culloden]

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Unto the Gathered Cooks does Gwynydd send the following:

O please don't rehash this in private!  I have long wondered about those cooks who seem to like making extra work by peeling mushrooms (I have never bothered!) and am curious about the possibility of there being a reason behind it.

Gwynydd (searching beside the rock for some tasy fungus)

At 2000-03-23 07:02:25.140001, 
Christina van Tets (cjvt at hotmail.com) wrote:
> Hello the list!
> 
> My word, it's been a long time since I read a digest - five 
> months, I think! 
>   Unfortunately reality got in the way for a while.  So you've 
> probably 
> thrashed this to death in my absence, but just in case you haven't:
> 
> Is there any good culinary reason why some recipes in the 
> mediaeval corpus 
> say to peel mushrooms?  Or is it merely to give you time and 
> opportunity to 
> spot which ones go yellow (which we don't need if we buy 
> cultivated ones 
> these days)?
> 
> If you have thrashed it out in my absence, can someone reply 
> privately, to 
> avoid rehashing it all in public?
> 
> Cairistiona
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