Mushroom foraging

thanks for that Teutonic interpolation...

Well, in Germany Hamlet is usually shown with the skull when delivering the line 'To be or not to be, ...', which is even incorrecterer.

Also, Wallpaper and that fire place.

I was more worried about the Def Leppard t-shirt.

amputeeist ^^

Has anyone tried those Sainsburys Tinned Creamed Mushrooms?

get tae fuck^^
this thread is for connissewers

What do you call a fungi in a pub with......no........wait.........shit.........

why did he leave the pub? because there wasnt mush room

why did he leave the pub? because there wasnt mush room

No....actually, they were having an open mike night for aspiring performance poets and he was down to preform at 9.00 o'clock. But at 5 to he bottled it and went, saying he'd be back in 30 mins, once he'd got himself together.

So in fact, he left that pub to ode stall.

Well, in Germany Hamlet is usually shown with the skull when delivering the line 'To be or not to be, ...', which is even incorrecterer.

Bloody Danes!

I misread this thread title as 'Mushroom for ageing'. I'm a bit sad now, and slightly older.

I misread this thread title as 'Mushroom for ageing'. I'm a bit sad now, and slightly older.

You still bear a very passable likeness to a mushroom, though. ;)

velvet shanks? enjoyed taking the picture. lovely outdoors.

... drop them off at the mushroom seller's stall at Borough Market...

Borough Market's not somewhere I know, but I'll need to learn about it if conditions carry on. I've spoken to a few contacts in the restaurant trade, and these puppies are headed for a gastro-pub in Hammersmith.

Had a good mountain bike round with the boys yesterday checking the patches, and got a couple of shaggy ink caps for their tea, but it seemed to have been a bit dry for big growth.

@36x18 I'd be interested to know what they offer you for these. Must be the best part of a kilo of finest boletus edulis there, no?

So, Fridays trip went bloody fantastic. First trip where I have been really fussy about what I picked - I must have left about 40 kilos of mushrooms behind! There were thousands of chanterelles, but they were a little older than I would have liked so I left them and started picking some suillus bovinus(in the smaller baskets) and a few other boletes then after a couple of hours and 2 kilos of those we stumbled upon a huge colony of bay boletus. We picked as many as we could carry in the basket and red bag, and left because we couldn't really process any more than that so all in all we half filled the boot if my FIL's car and went home after 4 hours.
I decided to dry the suillus and my in laws then started to fight about what to do with the rest - I kept out and so we dried half and cooked half.
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^^ That is amazing... I'm glad you don't aim for the same places as me!

How are you drying those? Have you tied each one or sewn the thread through the mushroom? And is that a fireplace that you're about to light, or do they go into an airing cupboard? Sorry, lots of questions.

@ Sharkstar, I'm ten quid richer, but I didn't press the issue on my first sale. One of the chefs had said they paid about £15 per kilo, and we took them 750ish grams. I'll struggle to get rich doing it weekends only, but if it can be used as kids pocket money it will get them out and about. I wanted to ask you what they pay in the market, as I have no idea what they're worth. Its bound to be a bit less than normal given the quantities that are around.

Those ones are hanging in front of the fire, but only in the evening when it is lit. In the day they are either out in the sun, or hanging in front of a desktop fan.
My FIL likes to dry them in the oven, but I told him he wasn't allowed with mine as he burnt about 2 kilos of ceps last time he tried!

I used about a metre of thread and threaded some mushrooms on then tied it into loop Then threaded the loops onto a hoe. Now however the loops are threaded onto thicker strong as I couldn't easily transport the hoe back to my place.

What is the market value of ceps and bay boletes in the markets in the UK? Here I guess ceps are about 5 per kilo and bay boletes about 2.50. But then we have thousands of people out hunting them and in the UK not so many people go out.

To be honest I'm struggling to use up all these mushrooms but I just found a recipe for mushroom ketchup in a book I have - 'Preserved'
Has anybody tried mushroom ketchup and is it worth making or a waste of good mushrooms.

never made it dude,
tbh I dont dig on shrooms much except when they totally fresh like hours old,
thats when I make dem recipes above ^^

Its all gone a bit quiet. No new growth in the usual places. A handful of chanterelles (good), and a death cap (very bad). I was about to call it a season when these turned up. Not too many to be off-putting, & good enough to go straight into the pan.

The parasols were found last week. Not just any parasol, but Holland Park parasols. Dipped in egg, rolled in breadcrumbs and fried. Lish.

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Met a lady from our yesterday and she had three baskets full of mushrooms. One of them was the size of a dinner plate - fucking enormous shroom! She said she'd got them from Chobham. That is all.

There's a massive patch of saffron milk caps outside my work - but I'm kind of wary about them, not EXACTLY sure I've identified right, being new to this lark.

The reason I'm uncertain is:

1. They don't exude a milky substance when cut.
   
2. Stems don't appear to be hollow.
   
3. Didn't bruise bluey green.
   
   

I took a risk and ate a little bit with no ill effects.
Should I go for it?

GL, be wary. Nibbling the scenery is not the recommended test method. I've not had any experience with the saffron milk cap, but reading around, there seems to be consensus on a milk that turns carroty when cut, a hollow stem, and growing under pine trees in Scotland. (Uncommon in England at least.)

There seem to be too many similarish types around to make it a safe bet, and at best you'll not have a great supper. Don't go for it. It would be a shame to lose you.

Do get Roger Phillips book (Amazon link), and get into mushrooms. They are nature's way of apologising for the end of summer, and make any trip into the woods a much more exciting event.

I'll do that, mate.

Good advice.