. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 116 MCSHEOCMS, HOW TO GKOW THEM, may not Lave enough musbrooms ready at one gathering to make it worth while sending them to market, and are tempted to let them stay ungathered until to-morrow, when they have grown larger and many more shall have grown big enough to gather. This should never be done. It will give an unfavored, unequal lot, some big, some little, some old, some young. Far better pick every one the moment it is ready to gather, and keep all safe in a cool place and cove
. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 116 MCSHEOCMS, HOW TO GKOW THEM, may not Lave enough musbrooms ready at one gathering to make it worth while sending them to market, and are tempted to let them stay ungathered until to-morrow, when they have grown larger and many more shall have grown big enough to gather. This should never be done. It will give an unfavored, unequal lot, some big, some little, some old, some young. Far better pick every one the moment it is ready to gather, and keep all safe in a cool place and covered until some more are ready for use, and in this way have a uniform appearing lot of young produce. Mushrooms for soups should always be gathered be- fore they burst their gills; iudeed, they are mostly gathered when in a button state; that is, when they are about the size of marbles. In this condition, when cooked, they retain their white appearance and do not discolor the soup. Immature mushrooms are deficient in flavor. For home use, for baking, stewing, broiling, or for cooking in any way in which the tenderness of the flesh and the delicious aro- ma of the mushrooms are desirable in their finest condition, let the mushrooms attain itheir full size and burst their frills, as seen in Fig. 24, and gather them before the caps open out flat. Fig. m. a Perfect Mushroom. or the gills lose any of their bright pink color. If you let them get old enough for the gills to turn brown before gathering, the mushrooms will become leathery in texture, and lose in flavor and darken sadly in cooking. In picking, always pull the mushrooms out by the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Falconer, William. New York : Orange Judd Co.
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