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Well its autumn, and its the season for mushrooms is it not?
Does anyone have any experience of picking wild mushrooms, I am really keen to do this but am slightly concerned about poisoning myself (or getting off my heed inadvertedly!)...
does anyone have any tips/advice/tells to tale?
Best go on a guided mushroom hunt to find out, the best book on the subject is VERY expensive and very big, i've yet to find a good pocket guide.
The number of poisonous mushrooms is actually quite low but there are a large number that are unpalatable.
unfortuanatly the poisonous ones are very poisonous.
I have a vivid memory of going out with my dad one Sunday morning when I must have been perhaps 7 or 8 years old, and collecting huge mushrooms with fluted black undersides and creamy tops from a field containing horses before taking them home for my mum to fry in the pan with bacon (and quite probably lard). My dad passed away nearly thirty years ago and I have no idea where it was though :o
Shaggy Ink Cap's have a lovely nutty taste and are easy to recognize. :)
where might I find these?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated
http://www.wildmushroomsonline.co.uk...-Cap/index.phpQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Many thanks Pilgrim...the recipe on here sounds awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
I've not seen any of the recipes, I just found the site so you'd know what the ink caps look like. Pick them carefully (they damage easily) and lightly fry them.Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
I've not seen any of the recipes, I just found the site so you'd know what the ink caps look like. Pick them carefully (they damage easily) and lightly fry them.Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Puffballs are fairly foolproof aren't they?
i do a good impression of a mushroom at work
Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit
Filed mushrooms are nice... and plentyful this year, because of the strange weather we have had...
Get some of these beauties with your egg and bacon and i can guarantee that you will feel far more contentment with life in general.
http://i51.tinypic.com/i19ndk.jpg
up untill 8 years ago when i made a turn in my life it would have been a dream come true to come across a fly-agaric mushroom for myself. something i never did. however this week while on holiday in the lake district i not only come across 1 but 3:):):)
What do you file them under? I tend to go for the traditional 'M'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
I've found them growing on Holcombe Hill a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by fellboy
Haven't found any up here, but used to get plenty of parasol mushrooms , ink caps and ceps in the beech woods on Salisbury Plain.
If you're going to try and you don't know what you're doing, eat half of the mushroom and leave the other half in the kitchen so the doctor has somewhere to start.
I think it's the fly agaric that makes you feel a bit ill, then you feel better as it destroys your liver and then you die.
Yours sound like field mushrooms, DT.
You're thinking of the Death Cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad
Ta, bit of a give-away in the name, really.
If you have any Polish friends, ask them. Mushroom picking is a national sport over there in Central Europe. Many moons ago during the Cold War, I used to spend nights kipping in East German forests and was frequently woken in the early hours by mushroom pickers, usually with a jolly cry of 'Hallo, Tommy, wie geht's, Kamerad?'.
Saw one of them growing in the fields just south of Preston (a long time ago).Quote:
Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad
...careful if you picking mushrooms Al!!!
I run past this Mushroom most days http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/im...8-2c943bd7e19f[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Komori/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png[/IMG]
I have a river cottage guide, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mushrooms-Ri.../dp/0747589321
Really helpful have identified/sold/eaten (or thrown away) lots of mushrooms using this guide..:D
Dan
The last 2 years have been hopeless up in Wales for fungi generally, so hoping for better this year. Had a very few field mushrooms, usually also dine well on Ceps and Parasols - they are the ones I feel comfortable identifying.
First of the Magic Mushrooms are up already - looks like it will be a good year for them............if you fancy "flying down the fells" whilst sitting in an armchair beside the fire :w00t:.
A field I run through had about fifty mushrooms last week. There has been no mushrooms there for at least five years. I stopped and looked at them and they had def come within a couple of days. I thought it would be cool just to leave them. I never really pick any of the weird ones as I'm not confident enough.
2 mushrooms and a lovely fresh parasol (first this year) on this mornings run, have them for supper tonight. Damp and mild weather should bring them on now.
I am only confident with cep, field mushroom and chanterelles... oh and puffballs :) Everything else I leave well alone... Mind, think a shaggy inkcap is easy to identify? Never eaten them...
Most fungi books have clear indications as to what can be easily identified as edible varieties. Mine give warnings against ones that are edible but could be confused with inedible or poisonous ones, so you should be fairlly safe even if it means you aren't collecting some that are actually edible.
Field mushrooms ie growing in grass and looking like shop mushrooms are quite safe as well as horse mushrooms which are quite big.
This evening I picked a mushroom, Cep and Puffball on our walk after work. I fried and ate them all as a starter for supper. Yummy, yummy (hope I don't have a bad tummy :w00t:).
Saw hundreds of strange looking mushrooms today on a walk up to Thievely pike. Some were small orange things.
There were loads of very large Fly Agarics (I think :confused: ) on the narrow root strewn paths through the pine forest at the Black Mountains race on Saturday. Apparently they are "magic" as well :rolleyes:
Looked like these:
http://www.amanita-photolibrary.co.u...caria_4755.htm
I quite like the idea of collecting tasty wild mushrooms, and we normally have a good supply in and around back forest (near the Roaches). However, I'm always reminded of the descriptions of the destroying angel and death cap mushrooms; that a quarter of one mushroom is enough to kill you. :eek:
That's your Fly Agaric, very common all over - probably because nobody picks them to eat! You can eat small amounts (not advised) and they are hallucinogenic, I seem to recall that the myth of Father Christmas started with Scandinavians consuming them somehow and believing they could fly etc. Sounds good to me, better than most Christmases :wink:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
Which leads me onto the true "Magic Mushrooms", there's an enourmous crop of them out on the hills just now, excellent year for them - if so inclined. My sister is now convinced that her horse has gone a bit loopy lately because of the Magic M's it's eating in it's field. I think she could do with a few :rolleyes:.
Picked a wonderfull Cep last night, fresh grown and perfect. Sliced it thinly and into the frying pan (in butter) with a few thin slices of black pudding. Bloody lovely - autumn flavours at their best.;)
This few days warm should be perfect growth, get on out there for possible bumper harvest.
Sounds divine moleyQuote:
Originally Posted by molehill
I just got back from Tuscany where my mate lives in the mountains, and Fly Agaric are all over the place. Their toxicity has been grossly exaggerated - it's just people's neurotic fear of strange mushrooms. You might might feel a bit nauseous, but if you eat a sensible amount, that's probably about it - in terms of negative effects anyway! Not a good idea to eat lots though. We tried preparing and eating some, but nothing really happened ...Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Another Cep and black pud (and baked beans, and scrambled egg and toast :D) for breakfast today.
Just brought home a couple of big field mushrooms in my sack - should do for tomorrow.
Will give the Fly Agarics a miss thanks ZHR, don't feel that adventursome at my age :o, they are beautifull to look at though and never cease to inspire.
Went for a 12mile run with a friend today and we found nice fresh meadow puffball. It survived the journey home and we sliced it into little 'steaks' and fried it with garlic. Lovely soft, melt in your mouth texture.
This really is a bumper year. Mushroom for breakfast and a fresh Cep with my roast pheasant tonight. There are Ceps and everything everywhere. Really is too good an opportunity to miss, especially as the previous 2 years have been pretty barren here in Wales. Get stuck in whilst you can.
take your camera next time and lets have a good pic of a cep... PleaseQuote:
Originally Posted by molehill