[Sca-cooks] Period German menus

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 12:36:36 PST 2007


I wonder if the "Redling" is a boletus; one of the boletus is called (in
America) Orange Bolete; but it often gets reddish in color (like an
amanita/fly agaric, but no spots).  I checked a German Mycology page (in
which I didn't understand a thing), and they had bolet listed on it, so I
assume these grow there, as well.

The page I was on was www.tintling.com; those who understand German may try
some translation, there.

Boletes taste rather musty, have that basic "mushroom" taste, are firm, and
meaty.

wait, though; on a german website www.pilzepilze.de, they have pictures of
"Rotling" and it's entoloma varieties; entoloma vernum aka Frulingsrotling
(spring rotling?), entoloma hirtipes aka Striegeliger Rotling, entoloma
sepium aka Schlehenrotling, entolomo rhodopolium aka
niedergedruckter rotling.  My computer doesn't do Umlauts, so some of these
o's and u's have umlauts you're not seeing.

 on the tintling page, there's also riesen-rotling, entoloma sinuatum aka
entoloma lividum aka rhodophyllus lividus....and another variety of entoloma
that's called a blaublattriger zartling, whatever that means; it's not
called a rotling at all, but it's in the same family (entoloma chalybaeum
var. lazulinum aka entoloma lazulinum)

I don't know if these are edible, or not, never having eaten them.  I've
eaten boletes, though.

hope this helps?

p.s.: there are other orange or red german mushrooms; gymnopilus penetrans,
aka Geflecktblattringer Flammling, Lactarius fulvissimus aka Orangefuchsiger
Milchling, zimtblattriger birken-wasserkopf aka cortinarius subbalaustinus,
spitzgebuckelter raukopf aka cortinarius rubellus cooke aka cortinarius
speciosissimus aka cortinarius orellanoides, orangefuchsiger raukopf aka
cortinarius orellanus, steinpilz aka boletus edulis, to name ones I could
find.   don't know how many are edible

there are other mushrooms with names that sound a little like rotling;
there's rohrling, ritterling, rotelritterling, rotelrichterling, rasling,
reifpilz, reizker, risspilz....so I hope there wasn't a "renaming"of the
mushroom used in the book.  there's also a variety of tree fungus with a
latin name of roselinia....don't know much about them.

As always, only pick mushrooms you KNOW are edible; the first few times, go
out with someone who has a lot of experience (and is very very careful).


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> Gwen and Giano helped figure out what some kinds of mushrooms were.
> Then later i did a web search of German sites for mushrooms and
> figured out two more kinds. We never did quite figure out, however,
> what some of the specific kinds would be called in English. They are
> Redling, Rotling (which may be the same mushroom in 2 different
> dialects), Raysling, and and Stockschwammen. If anyone can tell from
> the recipes, please let me know, so i can update them.
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