[Sca-cooks] Mushrooms in green vine salsa

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:58 AM -0500 jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

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>>   2. Mushrooms in green vine salsa
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> Ooh. that sounds fascinating. Do you have a recipe handy, or a pointer to
> the source?

Two recipes from Platina:

On Mushrooms and Fungi

...It may be cooked as pleases the greedy to say in some ways, with the 
third part which clings to the earth, in its juice, first in water with 
white bread, and then with pears or sprouts and twigs. Some put in garlic, 
which is thought to counteract the poison. They are fried, after being 
boiled and salted, in oil or liquamen, when they are fried, they are 
suffused with green sauce which they call salsa, or in garlic sauce.

2 lbs whole mushrooms (white or crimini or combination)
3 cloves garlic, whole, peeled.
salt
olive oil

Bring salted water and garlic to a boil. Boil until mushrooms change color. 
Drain. Fry in olive oil. Salt. Add salsa. Serve


A sauce made from vine tendrils, called salsa Take delicate vine tendrils 
and grind them up well, add, if you wish, the stalk of tender garlic and a 
small amount of bread crumbs. I say nothing of salt, for almost no dish is 
made without salt, then moisten all this in vinegar or verjuice and, when 
it is moistened, pass it through a strainer into a dish. (I interpreted 
vine tendrils as grape leaves, although you probably should use the 
tendrils right off the vine)


20 vine leaves (I'm using bottled vine leaves because I don't have a source 
for fresh or tendrils. Because the bottled leaves are in brine, I'm leaving 
out the salt.).
2-3 clove garlic
2 -3 tbsp red wine vinegar
3/4 slice of bread worth of bread crumbs

Rinse vine leaves in water. Grind in mortar (or food processor). Add 
cloves garlic, well mashed, and bread crumbs and grind some more. Add 
vinegar until the consistency is as desired, Strain through a sieve or food 
mill (I usually foodmill it).

(I refer to this as godawful sauce, because until you strain it it looks 
and smells godawful -- once you strain it, it's marvelous!)