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Commonly known as parasol mushrooms, delicious chopped up and fried with plenty of garlic. You get a few of them sometimes in the country around here, but not nearly as many as down in France.
If you see a near identical looking mushroom in colour and shape etc, only 2 or 3 times smaller, those are the ones to avoid
Commonly known as parasol mushrooms, delicious chopped up and fried with plenty of garlic. You get a few of them sometimes in the country around here, but not nearly as many as down in France.
If you see a near identical looking mushroom in colour and shape etc, only 2 or 3 times smaller, those are the ones to avoid
Would they be the ones known as the destroyer? Or the avenging angel?
If you see a near identical looking mushroom in colour and shape etc, only 2 or 3 times smaller, those are the ones to avoid
People say that randomly mushrooming mushrooms in the UK wilds can be either very poisonous or very magical. Apparently one needs to be a mushroom expert for knowing which one to pick, and which one to leave untouched.
Would they be the ones known as the destroyer? Or the avenging angel?
Either way, no thanks.
No, nothing quite that evil, I was referring to the false parasol (or faux coulemelle), which looks literally like a scaled-down carbon-copy of the true parasol. In my experience the false variety is far rarer than its real, larger cousin though, and I've yet to see a single one outside of a book or t'internet.
As a rough and ready guide, if any of the parasols in the clump you're picking from is 15cm or more across, you can be pretty sure they're the gooduns.
People say that randomly mushrooming mushrooms in the UK wilds can be either very poisonous or very magical. Apparently one needs to be a mushroom expert for knowing which one to pick, and which one to leave untouched.
I've picked and eaten probably getting on for a hundred individual different varieties of mushrooms from the fields and woods around here, but never a single one I wasn't 100% sure I'd identified exactly, from a combination of overall shape, colour, size, gill and stem characteristics, along with spore prints.
A lot of the larger and more common edible ones are actually the easiest to do, it's when you get into the smaller or less common varieties that you have to start scrutinizing more closely.
whether its true or false the SAS survival handbook i read as a teenager declared, "capped" shrooms as toxic, therefore i only drank them on nights out with close friends
People say that randomly mushrooming mushrooms in the UK wilds can be either very poisonous or very magical. Apparently one needs to be a mushroom expert for knowing which one to pick, and which one to leave untouched.
Those people you mention are dead right, and you could easily be too if you ignored that advice.
whether its true or false the SAS survival handbook i read as a teenager declared, "capped" shrooms as toxic, therefore i only drank them on nights out with close friends
Was this the handbook that showed how to make little fishing rafts and how to catch wasps with an old lemonade bottle?
27 October 2012, 05:07 PM
