[Sca-cooks] Fwd: mystery vegetable

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com:
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>In a message dated 4/21/02 9:16:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Bronwynmgn at aol.com writes:
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>>  Remember, the mushroom pasty recipe from Menagier says to peel the
>>  mushrooms,
>>  even though he says that "mushrooms of one night are best", implying that
>>  they are not old woody mushrooms.
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>>  Brangwayna
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>Would this be to get any dirt out of the pores or were they paranoid about
>poison on the outside?

Yes. Your typical modern champignon usually responds best to just a
wipe with a soft, possibly damp cloth, but it may well be a
combination of tough skins, dirty skins, and the additional
possibility that either a) some toxic mushrooms have toxic skins, and
b) some toxic (but not necessarily fatally poisonous) mushrooms
contain toxins that leech out into boiling water, or, at least, out
of the mushroom better when it is peeled.

Adamantius