Mushroom season every lover of this type of hunting starts at a different time.
My season begins in late April — early may, when pricemuch warm spring sun clearings begin to appear curly fragrant mushrooms — lines, morels. Morels in our area in recent years began to meet less and less. But the lines are still pleasing to the eye of mushroom and are one good reason a hike in the woods.
Indeed, why wait for the summer and autumn, when nature gives such joy to us, the pickers.
Spring lines growing in our lane, are of two types: gyromitra ordinary (lat. Gyromitra esculenta) and the giant gyromitra (Gyromitra gigas). There are, of course, another autumn subspecies, but now it’s not about them.
In its raw form, this fungus is inedible and even poisonous. It contains the toxin — giromitrin that neytralizuya after heat treatment. That is, after double-boiling the mushroom is fit to eat. Lately, some mushroom on the Internet-resources began to appear different, conflicting information on the edibility of this mushroom. Write about this giromitrin that they were cases of poisoning in Germany and other European countries. Other sources, by contrast, reported that the mushroom is edible after boiling or drying; in particular, in Finland it is one of the delicacies, and there strochok ordinary harvested distribution network. I don’t quite trust this information and disputes, based on the famous saying: “What Russian well, the Germans — death.” How many can remember, all my childhood and adolescence was collected these mushrooms. Boiled two times, for 10-15 minutes and fried with onions in sour cream. The most important thing in cooking is to rinse the mushroom, since the locus — sandy soil, sand it enough. And it is very frustrating when these teeth grit across.
The taste of these mushrooms is amazing. Something like chicken, but very distantly, and very fragrant smell of mushroom.
They grow on sandy soils, birch forests, near the old fallen birch trees, clearings, roadsides, trails, burned areas.
The first lines appear just after the snow melts, still wet on the ground. And collecting them can last until the end of may. When have all had sprouted young grass. There is mostly families. You find one, look at both next and probably the second, third and fourth.
How much fun bring these first forays into a quiet hunt in early may!
Look around at the young pale green color of the greens, listening to the endless forest concert of birdsong, substitute the face of the first spring sun, and have some kind of special happiness. As the last working Friday before a long vacation. It seems more and rest did not come, but he’s already there, and all the good, new and interesting is ahead.
