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A lesson in mushrooming

Our hour long french lesson went on for an extra half hour today, engrossed in the topic that is on many a locals mind at the moment the wild mushroom.


                                                                     Not edible

You are a cherecher des champignons when you are specifically mushroom gathering or  a ramasscer if you go out walking and so happen to find a few fungi en route. Some are 'etre doue' to be gifted in hunting.


Some specimens brought in were edible some not, with 3 categories of comestible, toxique et mortel. It all depends on the shape,texture, gilles and colour. It seems the locals are only interested in the best tasting, that being ceps, girolles (chanterelles), trumpet de morte (trumpet of death) and pied du mutton (hedgehog)


                                                                         Edible



 Preserving was discussed, freezing, drying, bottling and the use of the pressure cooker on how to do the later. Even the best time to find those fungi's when the moon is ascending, after a bit of rain and the sun has shone. Mushrooms here we come.
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  1. anita17 October 2013 at 01:40

    I still don't get the attraction - I mean why would you eat something called the trumpet of death?! I think I'll leave the mushroom hunting to the locals!

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