[Sca-cooks] Fwd: mystery vegetable

[A F Murphy]

I know I have seen directions to peel mushrooms if the skins are tough.
Don't remember where - I have cookbooks dating to 1895, I think, so
perhaps in one of my old ones. Never done it myself, and I have an idea
it was presented as an optional, but  nice, touch.

Anne

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

>
> 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
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