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COMMON EDIBLE MUSHROOMS no farther for them than the front lawn, or a neighboring park or woodlot. With no more time or trouble than it takes to learn to recognize half a dozen different kinds of flowers or shrubs that grow in our gardens we can learn to know an equal number of the choicer mushrooms. There are about half a dozen types of mushrooms that appear regularly in sufficient abundance to make it worth while getting acquainted with them from the culinary standpoint. No special abilities, training, or equipment are necessary, and the time and effort expended will be amply rewarded with many a dish of fungi fresh from the field. There is no risk in eating wild mushrooms of proved quality, kinds that have been eaten in many lands and for thousands of years. There is danger in eating all wild mushrooms indiscriminately. Even children who go berry picking in the woods do not pick and eat all kinds of berries, because they have been taught that some are good and others are inedible or harmful. Instead, they go after certain specific, known kinds. In the same way one should not pick and eat any wild mushrooms he happens to find but should seek morels, shaggymanes, puffballs, or other particular kinds, like those described in this book, that can be recognized with ease and certainty and that are positively known to be good. If you follow this rule you will find them as delicious, wholesome, and safe as any other wild vegetable, though less nourishing than most. To those who know and like them, their flavor more than makes up for their lack of nourishment. Indeed, their low calory value recommends them to many! This book has been written to introduce a number of the common edible mushrooms so that people without previous training or experience can learn how to recognize them, where and when to find them, and how to prepare them for eating. Since it is intended for the beginner it will not enable you to identify offhand any mushroom you happen to pick up. Of the hundreds of common species only about fifty are described, and these fifty were chosen primarily on the basis of ease of recognition and com- 4
ABOUT MUSHROOMS mon occurrence throughout the country. Three general groups and one single kind have been selected from the fifty and included in a special section called "The Foolproof Four." These are considered to be four of the most easily and surely recognized, most abundant and widespread, and most desirable in flavor and texture of all our common edible mushrooms. Any discerning person should be able to gather and eat these as safely as he gathers and eats blueberries or wild strawberries. Emphasis throughout the book is placed upon the obviously sound idea that you must learn to know those that are absolutely safe and good, and avoid all others. This constant emphasis is not meant to convey the impression that eating wild mushrooms is more dangerous than eating other wild plants, or that there are more kinds of poisonous mushrooms than there are of equally poisonous other plants, because there definitely are not. It is merely that most of us have had some training and experience in distinguishing the higher plants, and we look upon them not as plants in general but as specific kinds, such as blueberries, poison ivy, and so on. So that you may learn in the same way to know the specific kinds of mushrooms that are most harmful to man, a few of the very poisonous species are also described in this book, as well as several poisonous species that are closely related to, and sometimes confused with, certain edible ones. It must be repeated, however, that these are not the only poisonous mushrooms; they are merely the most common and most deadly. Excessive caution is always necessary even if you are a trained mycologist. Therefore remember: IF YOU FIND A MUSH- ROOM THAT is not DESCRIBED AS edible IN THIS BOOK, don't eat it! Your attention is respectfully called to the last section of the book, to which a number of people experienced in the art of mushroom cookery have contributed recipes. Some of these recipes are new and original; one at least is more than three hundred years old. A few are designed to bring out the best qualities of specific kinds of mushrooms; others can be applied to a large variety. 5
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