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Originally Posted by NarnianGarden
I wish I had Gyromitra growing in the area nearby, I would gladly have one meal a year with them. They are a pain to prepare (boil, cook, boil, throw the water away and don't inhale it while it's boiling), and there is still some controversy about the safest method. (drying vs boiling)
Much of the flavor is lost in the boiling process, but there is still enough left to make a delicious sauce with cream :-)
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My mother, also from Europe, used to boil in salt water all the wild mushrooms we picked and then throw away the water. She felt that if we had picked any poisonous ones this would draw the poison. We never got sick but we never picked any questionable mushrooms. This was her way.
Another, tedious, thing we did was to peel all the mushrooms we brought home. Often a big job.