[Sca-cooks] mushrooms

[Daniel Myers]

Just a quick reminder on this one - be VERY careful if you pick your
own mushrooms!

My grandparents used to hunt for morels each year and were very
experienced, yet even they managed once to get something else mixed in
by accident.  They were lucky in that they only spent a night vomiting
and having hallucinations.


On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 01:28 PM, Isabella di Giovanni
wrote:

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> Good Lord. Which Saint are you named after? hehe It would take the
> patience of one to peel them. My hat is off to you.
> I wash mine, but with the stem down, so the little 'flappers' don't
> get soaked, and before I cut the end of the stem off. Drain on a paper
> towel. Never had problems. And the morels you have to soak in several
> changes of water to get all the 'crud, bugs, thingys' out of their
> little 'apartments'.
> Isabella, getting REAL hungry for 'shrooms of any sort
>  Heleen Greenwald wrote:This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> Clear DayI take a tiny paring knife and "peel" the mushrooms. This
> gets all the crud off without having to subject the 'shrooms to water.
> Is this a no-no?
> Phillipa
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> I always understood that you don't wash mushrooms because they absorb
>> water, unless you're going to be cooking them in something liquid like
>> soup or stew. Then there's my mother, who always insisted that you
>> must
>> wash the mushrooms.
>>
>> Margaret,



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