[Sca-cooks] Puffballs- was Re: Rumpoldt Mushroom Recipe - Redaction

[marilyn traber 011221]

> Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
> >Weiss bitter Schwam{m}en - I translated as white bitter mushrooms, 
> >but i'm not sure which they are.
> 
> I wonder if these might be puffballs, or one of the other white, 
> mildly toxic mushrooms which get peeled and boiled (the water being 
> thrown away) before adding them to recipes...
> 

Unless you're describing a specificly European puffball, since when are they 
even mildly toxic? And, when do you peel them? The ones I harvest here in the 
US, all you do to them is slice them and use them. Either they're usable 
(solid white flesh) or they're not (varying amounts of the interior has 
turned to spores- usually the entire inside, but occasionally you catch one 
in transition).

Saint Phlip,
CoD

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