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Post by frondsfinder on Sept 30, 2014 20:17:27 GMT -6
I dehydrate a bunch of it. I leave some in pieces and and make powder out of the rest. I like the powder I could put it in everything. I've cut it into pieces and froze it without washing it. That seemed to work the best for retaining the" fresh" flavor. just pull them out of the bag run them under water for a minute and put them in whatever is cooking.
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Post by ec rob on Oct 1, 2014 7:58:35 GMT -6
I usually wash them and slice them up and par-cook them over medium - low heat without anything else in the pan, until most of the water boils off. Then let them cool to room temperature, and spread them on wax paper on a cookie sheet, then set the sheet in the freezer overnight. In the morning you can break the mushrooms off the sheet and snap them apart and put them in a freezer bag and back into the freezer till you want them. Then you can just throw them into whatever and they'll cook up pretty close to fresh. I do the same thing for aborted entolomas and hedgehogs and chanterelles, works pretty slick. I haven't tried dehydrating them, I usually only do that with oysters and black trumpets and boletes.
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Post by marinetteco on Oct 2, 2014 17:41:16 GMT -6
Thanks, I think I'll try the dehydrating road as that is how I preserve all my other shrooms.I guess I assumed they carried too much water to dehydrate.I have froze them fresh and blanched and found the results o.k., at best. They were good for about there months, then flavor and texture degraded.
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Post by ec rob on Oct 6, 2014 7:39:59 GMT -6
Found another 2 hens on Saturday, one of them was too far gone to bother with, but it was on a tree I haven't marked yet, so I'll have another tree to check back on. The other one was on a tree I had found and marked back in August, and it was in great condition. Didn't see too many other mushrooms out there, lots of fresh leaves on the ground though, so it is a little harder to see. Saw one small patch of ab. Entolomas, and a few scattered mushrooms that might have been honeys, but I didn't pick them to check.
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Post by marinetteco on Oct 6, 2014 17:05:30 GMT -6
I picked two super fresh and young hens Monday afternoon. I also went back to a oak I saw a small one growing on last week and was surprised to find it was not a hen but a umbrella mushroom
I have never ate one before, so I pitched it. It did smell very mushroomy though. Anyone out there try them?
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