[Sca-cooks] fat hen mushrooms

[Ian Kusz]

Are these the same as what are called cauliflower mushrooms?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Cat . <tgrcat2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> while I do not know if it was so in medival German here is a link to the
> entry
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> Fat Hen mushrooms (Sparassis crispa)  and yes, there are recipes available
> under
> other links
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> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krause_Glucke
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> Juana Isabella wrote
> >  > 2 hens mushrooms (not sure which these are);
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> >  > Urtatim
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> >Might those be "Hen of the Woods" mushrooms?
> >http://www.celtnet.org.uk/images/hen-of-the-woods.gif
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> I wondered ABOUT that. I just don't know if our cute name in English
> and their cute name in medieval German refer to the same mushroom.
> German speakers? Any ideas here?
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> I have been looking at LOTS of photos of mushrooms lately... and
> wiping the drool off my keyboard.
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> I am not sure where i get my love of mushrooms. Both my parents
> disliked them. And growing up in the Mid-West in the 1950s, canned
> and bottled mushrooms (aka rubber gaskets) were what we had
> available. I probably discovered the wonderful world of fresh
> mushrooms when i moved to Manhattan in the later 1960s. And when
> California in 1970, now that was a whole nother set of fresh fruit
> and vegetable revelations.
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> >If so, I can get those too :-) I do love Far West Fungi at the Ferry
> >Building http://www.farwestfungi.com/
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> Uh, oh, i am drooling again...
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> Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
> the persona formerly known as Anahita
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