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Giant Puffballs & other shroomsI really am hopeful that this year will be good as 2006! This is what I found today...
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A GIANT puffball in perfect condition inside. Another 4 or 5 following on. Yummy!!! 
Erm - anyone know any good ways of preserving giant puffball....?
Also looks to be good for Boletes this year too. Found several Boletus radicans amongst the B. luridus.
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Shame they are not edible, but they doo look rather pretty.
And lastly what I think is Suillus bovinus - though not 100% sure...
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Purplegirl
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Lovely specimen of the puffball... had a couple of giant puffballs last year that were delicious - don't, however, preserve them by covering them in egg, breadcrumbs, frying and then freezing... I follwed this recipe from a book and well, sadly it didn't work. Damn things came out slimy and inedible afterwards 
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cab
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Good finds!
Spotted, cycling home yesterday, chicken of the woods, three species of Agaricus (including the potentially toxic A. placomyces, which I haven't found in Cambridge before, Agrocybe cylindracea, and Volvariella speciosa. I must find time to go picking.
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ksia
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And on a related point does anyone get "Living Woods" magazine? p 46 has a picture of a (S. vulgare) puffball next to a "these are delicious" giant puffball piece. I hope they're well insured.
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PeteS
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Re: Giant Puffballs & other shrooms | jp wrote: |
Erm - anyone know any good ways of preserving giant puffball....?
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Yes, give them to me
Fancy swapping one for a Chicken of the Woods?
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jp
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| Quote: | jp wrote:
Erm - anyone know any good ways of preserving giant puffball....?
Yes, give them to me
Fancy swapping one for a Chicken of the Woods? |
Tee hee - nice one Pete! I'm doing my level best to preserve the one I picked by eating it myself!
I will check to see how the others are coming along on Tuesday - hopefully they will have grown to a decent size by then (& no enthusiastic corporate lawnmower has got them!). If so I will PM you.
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PeteS
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| jp wrote: |
Tee hee - nice one Pete! I'm doing my level best to preserve the one I picked by eating it myself!
I will check to see how the others are coming along on Tuesday - hopefully they will have grown to a decent size by then (& no enthusiastic corporate lawnmower has got them!). If so I will PM you. |
Thanks JP, I have never eaten a giant puffball, we don't tend to get them down this way. I have seen them in the past, but this was before I foraged and I did not know you could eat them. I have not got a COTW now, but I am bound to find one soon. In fact ever since I discovered that they did not agree with me I am always finding the dam things!
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AnnaD
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After years of searching, I finally found a giant puffball last night. Distressingly my neighbour had attacked it with a lawnmower 
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cab
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Don't distress too much, theres a good chance more will grow back there.
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AnnaD
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| cab wrote: | | Don't distress too much, theres a good chance more will grow back there. |
Oh good 
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cinders
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A friend of mine is waiting for a bull to move along in a field and will grab me a puff ball she has seen.Her BF reckons they smell like wet dog when cooked
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nettie
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I found one today
Mind you, i had forgotten how bland they are!!!
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cab
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| nettie wrote: |
Mind you, i had forgotten how bland they are!!! |
They're very variable. Some spots produce puffballs that are bland when young, some produce puffballs that are bland even when approaching maturity, others produce puffballs that are almost too intense to eat.
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Truffle
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| cab wrote: | | nettie wrote: |
Mind you, i had forgotten how bland they are!!! |
They're very variable. Some spots produce puffballs that are bland when young, some produce puffballs that are bland even when approaching maturity, others produce puffballs that are almost too intense to eat. |
It seems to vary round here more by type of puffball.
Still love a whole slice of giant puffball fried in bacon fat an on a bacon sandwich. mmm.
Truffle
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cab
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I've noticed it more living down here, because there are several different spots where we sometimes find them. Really surprisingly variable in the intensity of flavour.
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