[Steppes] Mushroom inks

[Elaine Crittenden via Steppes]

Thank you.  I know nothing about mushrooms. The Wikipedia article said burgeoning amanita looked like puff ball beginnings and to cut the baby mushroom in two (vertically) to see if the amanita is just encased, that you could see the stem and cap in “infant” form. I am not cooking or eating any mushroom I haven’t bought from a supermarket!
At a now defunct NM mountain restaurant (closed for drug sale— shocking!!!) I have had a huge mushroom cap that was stuffed with dressing, a garlicky snail, and port. Oooo YUM!. They can be soooooo tasty! Did we do this in our period?

Changing the subject back---
Thanks again, Suzanna. You are such a genius.

As for inks, I think I will stay with grinding my Japanese stick inks on a suzuri stone while I sip my Uji province matcha tea!! LOL

For those in the Japanese personas---
As the Japanese say— “Matane [mah-tah-nay]” (Goodbye for now}. Matane is not like “Sayanora” [Sah yah-nor-yah], which is a goodbye in which you’ll never see them again. 

And don’t be fooled by Japanese inks that smell good. They may not be the highest quality inks. What you want is face-powder particles.

YIS,
HL Lete Bithespring



> On Nov 27, 2016, at 2:04 PM, suzanna Herbalist <suzannaherbalist at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Puffball I think probably not that permanent  though might be worked up like iron gall ink. Don't think black cohosh would improve the permanence a lot.
> 
> Puff balls do NOT in the slightest resemble amanitas. Puff balls are round balls, no stem, no gills. Amanitas are a graceful white gilled mushroom with a nice stem and annular ring around stem. Puff balls are edible when fresh  white when cut open. As they age they yellow  then turn black and either deliquesce or dry out.
> 
> Have fun experimenting
> Suzanna  herbalist 
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Elaine Crittenden via Steppes <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> 
> Date: 11/27/2016 1:36 PM (GMT-06:00) 
> To: Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org 
> Subject: [Steppes] Mushroom inks 
> 
> Just found this on Wikipedia when looking for info on puffball mushrooms (NOTE: deadly amanita looks like them at times.). 
> 
> "Puffballs were traditionally used in Tibet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet> for making ink <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink> by burning them, grinding the ash, then putting them in water and adding glue liquid and "a nye shing ma decoction", which, when pressed for a long time, made a black dark substance that was used as ink.[3]"
> 
> I checked on "nye shing ma" and the closest I could get was “black cohosh”. Anyone ever tried making puffball mushroom ink? Is it permanent enough to ID equipment?
> 
> YIS,
> HL Lete Bithespring
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