BS: Field Mushroom

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Oct 07 - 06:45 AM

Seek out parasols - they are delicious, especially just as the cap is beginning to spread. Shaggy parasols too. With giant puffballs the best thing is to slice them quite thickly, dip in beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fry in butter. Yum. Lovely with toast and kippers.   They should still be white all the way through otherwise they are too old. Horse mushrooms, which are related to field mushrooms, are even more delicious, but just check that they have that aniseedy smell when scratched as you don't want to get a rogue Yellow Stainer in your basket which will give you belly-ache. When collecting edible fungi it can be a good idea to keep them the right way up in the basket to avoid soil falling into the gills. Fairy ring toadstools are reputedly delicious but I have yet to try them. Look out for ceps too. Are they the best of all?

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Oct 07 - 03:22 AM

don't eat them all - leave a few for the hospital to assay in case you end up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 12:29 PM

Amazonian is so prolific vital and invasive ya gotta cut it back or use containers so that it doesn't take over the entire garden. Especially if the garden soil is full of mycenialated wheat or barley grain. Its like breeding rabbits.
Fortunetly it can't withstand any freeze so the perennials are safe.

In Rochester NY there is a mushroom shaped house that is really charming. Today it might not be PC

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Micca
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 12:16 PM

Donul, Psilocybe Europea is reputed to be only a fraction of the Muscarinic (measure of psychotropic activity, measured against Muscarine which is given a nominal value of 1)of P. Cubensis with which its suggested you attach a rope to your ankle and the other end to a large boulder so that you do not float away completely!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 11:30 AM

Mycology is a sidline of mine. I even have my found samples in the US Pharmacopea which is just down the street.
This season
I found a group of Gymnophilius ha ha ha\\AND in by back yard a philospher's stone the size of my foot. I think I have miniature ants that farm the stuff.

I have some non sterile spore prints of the Big Laughing Jim from HUGE brown orange and golden yellow caps and strong blueing stems which thrive only in wood and underground philospher's stone for interested Pm's.

You have to be good to grow these, they're like breeding Pandas.

Often I can get 10 lbs of chicken of the woods in one outing.

I have even found Euro-psylocybe here but they are not nearly as good as Amazonian.

I have found the angel of death cap. It is truely beautiful like pure white alabaster of sensual angelic proportion.

But I have never found a morel. Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: The PA
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 11:22 AM

Its just occured to me, we haven't had any this year. We usually pick enough each day to have for breakfast, but I've not seen one so far. Wonder if our horses are eating them ??

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 11:07 AM

I'll save myself the trouble of finding out which ones are safe...I won't eat any of them...BLECK

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Gedpipes
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 10:53 AM

Magic thread this

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Bee
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 10:19 AM

Yes indeed, Maryrrf, and this is the time of year when those little psilocybins start popping up all over. A few years ago there was a grand flush of them on the main Post Office lawn in Halifax, resulting in hordes of shroomers trampling all over the grass there for a few days, until discouraged by the constabulary.

Beer, my grandfather loved field mushrooms, and since he had horses, his pastures were productive. I remember as a child watching him eat one so large it covered a dinner plate.

I do like chanterelles best, though. There is nothing as delicately flavoured as a cream soup (with real cream!) made with chanterelles.

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Maryrrf
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 10:09 AM

There area also wild mushrooms that are hallucinogenic....

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Beer
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 10:04 AM

lol Peace.
Sorry to hear your story SinSull.

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Peace
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 09:52 AM

'" Only 1 to 2 percent of the approximately five thousand species of mushrooms growing in North America are significantly toxic".'

Gal up on a capital charge.

"How did your first husband die?"

"He ate poison mushrooms."


"How did your secong husband die?"

"He ate poison mushrooms."


"How did your third husband die?"

"He was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat."

"Why? I mean it sounds strange."

"Yes, it was strange. He wouldn't eat his mushrooms."

Subject: RE: BS: Field Mushroom
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 09:50 AM

Last year, a mushroom "expert" from Japan was visiting here in the States. He picked mushrooms which the family cooked in a pasta sauce. The daughter died. All were sick. Whatever he picked looked exactly like an edible mushroom in Japan.
Thanks, no. I will pick mine in little grren boxes.

Subject: BS: Field Mushroom
From: Beer
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 09:45 AM

Picked 7 beautiful Field Mushrooms (also known as meadow or button.)this morning. Now I must go check a few other places that I have had some luck with. There is nothing more rewarding than to fry them up and spread them on toast. Now I have tried others like the Yellow-Fleshed Boletus,Funnel-Shaped Chanterelle, Shaggy mane, Sulfur Shelf(chicken of the wood),Gem-Studded Puffball and the Giant Puffball.
Having tried these I still go back to the field mushroom as my favorite. If you are going to experiment make sure you have a very good book with color plates that show perfectly what you are looking at in the field/woods is exactly the picture in the book. The best test however is to let your spouse try it first then watch for a reaction. If he/she keels over than maybe you should give it a second thought.
However for you mushroom lovers out there you know that this is not a good test because what can be toxic to a degree to your partner can have the very opposite effect to you. So the rule of thumb is try a very little at first and wait a bit.
The book that I have been using is titled " The New Savory Wild Mushroom by Margaret McKenny and Daniel E. Stuntz" 1987.
To quote a sentence by Varro E. Tyler: " Only 1 to 2 percent of the approximately five thousand species of mushrooms growing in North America are significantly toxic".
Beer (adrien)