Mushrooms Recipe

The highest authorities say an edible mushroom can easily be

distinguished from a poisonous one by certain characteristics;--a true

mushroom grows only in pastures, never in wet, boggy places, never in

woods, never about stumps of trees, they are of small size, dry, and if

the flesh is broken it remains white or nearly so and has a pleasant

odor. Most poisonous varieties change to yellow or dark brown and have a

disagreeable odor, though there is a white variety which grows in woods

or on the borders of woods, that is very poisonous. The cap of a true

mushroom has a frill, the gills are free from the stem, they never grow

down against it, but usually there is a small channel all around the top

of the stem, the spores are brown-black, or deep purple black and the

stem is solid or slightly pithy. It is said if salt is sprinkled on the

gills and they become yellow the mushroom is poisonous, if black, they

are wholesome. Sweet oil is its antidote.