Waves: salted, pickled (detailed recipes). Descriptions of fungus moths with a photo
Far from always mushroom pickers come back with the richa catch consisting of white mushrooms, oily, chicken, or chanterelles. In such cases, freckles will also be a joy. And although they are fond of conventional-edible mushrooms, this does not diminish people's love for them. And so many will be interested to know how the mushroom-freckles look and whether they can be used for culinary purposes (marinate and salted for the winter, hot dishes, etc.) ?.
Waves: description and habitat
These platelet fungi belong to the familyraw russet. The most common in our latitudes are pink and white. For the first, the hat is pink (up to 15 cm in diameter), which has the shape of a hemisphere in young specimens. With age, it compacts and forms a small indentation in the central part, the edges are wrapped. The skin of the pink girl is slightly sticky, it reacts with a darkening to the touch. Flesh is dense, white with a small red, transportable. The whitish juice released on the cut or slice does not change color with time. In adult mushrooms the leg is hollow and can reach up to 7 cm in height and up to 2 cm in diameter. A variety of fungal data can be admired, for example, in Wikipedia or other sources.
As well as all plate mushrooms in wave freaksthe sides are downward plates of a light shade intersecting with rare intermediate, as in the photo. Mushrooms of this species grow in large groups, begin to bear fruit in mid-July (relatively few, peak - August-September) and continue until early November. They love the root system of trees, especially birches. That is why they can often be found next to the boletus and redheads. Also it is worth noting that the freckles do not have false doubles, and therefore, remembering the description of the fungus, you can not be mistaken.
Making freckles at home
Before you cook these mushrooms isremember that they belong to the category of conditionally edible. Pre-treatment will destroy substances that are poisonous to humans in certain amounts. Therefore, mushroom-freckles soaked for 24 hours with a constant change of water, and then boiled. The most common way of harvesting for the winter (and not only) is pickling in cans or other containers - you should get something like on the photo (various recipes can be found on the Internet). For these purposes, only young specimens should be used. By the way, pickled freckles are inferior to their palatability only a mush.
As for salting these mushrooms in domesticconditions, then there are two ways - cold and hot. And if in the first method the mushrooms are only soaked for a long time (in some recipes I use citric acid instead of salt), and after that the brine is prepared (the mushrooms are laid out layer by layer with salt and spices), then in the second method of cooking the wavelets are additionally boiled (the remaining brine is then poured into the mushroom weight). There are recipes for fried wavelets (hot dishes): the pretreatment is no different from the methods of harvesting salted mushrooms, but then they are fried in a pan with onions, sour cream, greens and spices.
Mushrooms have long been part of the diet of modernrights. However, with all this, one should not forget about the precautions when they are collected and used for food (salting for the winter, pickling, etc.). Following the advice given in this article, you can always please yourself and your family with beautiful and delicious freckles.
