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Lactarius corrugis.
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| location: North America | | edibility: Edible | | fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink, Brown | | normal size: 5-15cm | | cap type: Convex to shield shaped | | stem type: Simple stem | | flesh: Flesh exudes white or watery latex (milk) when cut, Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Flesh granular or brittle | | spore colour: White, cream or yellowish | | habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Lactarius corrugis Pk.
Cap 4-13cm across, convex becoming depressed, sometimes with a distinctly wrinkled margin; dark reddish brown to yellowish brown, sometimes paler at the margin; dry and velvety. Gills adnate to subdecurrent, close, quite broad, some forking; white to pale yellowy or buff, brown when bruised. Stem 40-110 x 15-25mm, solid; paler than cap, gray-brown sometimes tinged red-brown; dry, velvety. Flesh firm; white staining brown. Latex white, unchanging, abundant, staining tissues brown when cut. Odor slight. Taste mild. Spores globose, amyloid, 9-13 x 9-13μ; ornamented with an almost complete reticulum, prominences 0.4-0.7µ, high. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in small groups on soil under hardwoods in deciduous, coniferous, or mixed woods. Found in eastern North America. Season July-October. Edible.(Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) |
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Kate Kudirka (United States) - 01 September 2009
When dried, this mushroom has a lovely smoky odor and taste (think smoked oysters). Very strong -- when dried this way, it can be overpowering, so I use sparingly, mostly in soups and sauces for flavor. *Highly recommended*, but do experiment first so you know how much/little to use. These mushrooms are sticky when the latex bleeds and it *does* stain hands (rinse hands w/peroxide or a mild bleach solution if you care), so I recommend, using gloves, cutting with a sharp knife in the field; carry them apart from other mushrooms and/or dirt or anything that might stick to the latex (makes it harder to clean them later; the latex acts like glue when dry). Rinse briefly under cool water, using a very soft, flat watercolor brush; blot dry with paper towels or clean cotton dishcloth.
TO DRY: Slice larger specimens, but leave smaller ones whole (for pretty). Preheat oven to 450, then TURN OVEN OFF and open oven door all the way. Place prepared mushrooms on DRY paper towel, spaced so they're not touching each other, on a wire-mesh rack, and put the rack on the oven door (which should be open and horizontal). When mushrooms are no longer damp, take them, rack and all, to a dark room, and put on a table with one of those little, powerful mobile fans blowing directly on them (I use a tiny little Massey high-velocity tabletop fan that's perfect: see http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9219112). It shouldn't take long for mushrooms to be nice and dried - if you've done it right they should be leathery, not powdery (and certainly not mouldy). When you're sure they're dried, pack them in a Ziploc bag and put them in the freezer. Reconstitute using warm cream or wine.
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