Edible mushrooms Russia

Mushrooming particularly beloved by Russians, called the "quiet hunt".After all, sometimes so nice to plunge into the quiet forest, move away from the bustle of the city and collect a basket of strong and beautiful mushrooms!But each case has its pitfalls.So in the collection of forest has its own rules.There are edible mushrooms, edible and poisonous probation.More detail in the article is the story of the first two versions.

Rules collection and types of edible mushrooms

Despite the fact that they are the food that is digested bad person collecting them in our country belongs to the favorite pastime, especially in the summer.In total there are four categories.The 1st include edible mushrooms, are of good quality and taste: white fungus, mushrooms.The second category - quite valuable mushrooms, but inferior in quality: aspen, mushrooms.The third - not a bad species, but collected only in extreme cases: the flywheel russula blue.The fourth category includes mushrooms which are collected only amateurs.

On the "quiet hunt" to go better in the morning, when the summer is cool and the forest has not yet filled with mushroom pickers.As the containers fit bucket or wicker basket.Need and a knife, which the mushrooms carefully cut off.When their search is necessary to carefully inspect the area and finding a desired, explore all around.After all, they grow normally "Company".Avid mushroom pickers easily orient themselves in the forest on the position of the sun or trees.But if you are not confident in their abilities, it is better to stock up on the compass.Do not cut the fruit, if they are saturated with moisture.They can be poisonous.Fungi on the same day after harvesting are processed.They were purified from the needles and the ground, cut the legs to make sure they are not damaged by insects.They were then washed with water, boil, cook various dishes, or salted.

When collecting mushrooms can not make mistakes and take only the edible species.When in doubt, it is better not to tear them.To collect only edible mushrooms, and not to be confused with poisonous, it is necessary to know their "in your face".The most popular and loved by the people - white mushroom.It is perfect for frying and salting.Hat it is dry to the touch, it reaches twenty centimeters in diameter, ocher-brown.Leg massive, like a barrel.The tubular layer has a color from white to olive green when mature spores.

usually collect ceps begins in June.They grow in the clearings, forest edges, bumps and grooves.Most of all - families.Very similar to the white gall fungus, which is inedible.You can list the edible mushrooms Russia, which are widely distributed in our forests: boletus, orange-cap boletus, saffron, greasers, mushrooms, chanterelles.You can collect them until the end of autumn.

Conditionally edible mushrooms

fans collect them useful to distinguish those species that call inedible, conditionally edible and poisonous.Inedible are such because they have an unpleasant odor and cause the same sensations.From them it may be indigestion.If you collect conditionally edible mushrooms, they can be eaten with caution, after removing the processing of contained in these toxic substances.They are boiled, dried, soaked.They appear in the spring.

Conditionally edible include lines and morels.To remove the toxins contained therein, mushrooms for fifteen to twenty minutes and then washed with boiled water.Also in this type of rank mlechniki mushrooms, russula, having pungent taste volnushki, skripnitsy, pepper mushrooms, malodorous shaft.For this reason, they are suitable only for salting, pre-boiled.Taki mushrooms as shaft or skripnitsa must be soaked for a long time and change the water frequently.

Before you go into the forest, study additional literature, take a seasoned mushroom picker and not cut suspicious mushrooms, then harvest will please you.