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08-28-2023, 11:54 AM
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Bolete mushrooms
Wondering how best to preserve boletes?
Any favorite ways to eat them?
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08-28-2023, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Camdec
Wondering how best to preserve boletes?
Any favorite ways to eat them?
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Drying them is always a good idea.
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08-28-2023, 03:06 PM
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You can do a few different things with them. First is to dry them out. Cut into an inch size cubes and let them dry.
Second- you can clean them, cut them, and boil them. Then you can freeze them in a ziplock bag.
Third- you can marinade them for the winter- they go awesomely well with boiled potatoes or with anything else, lol!
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08-29-2023, 12:26 PM
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You can dry them or can them.
For canning, clean and rinse the mushrooms, then bring them to a hard boil in water. Drain (but not too dry) and cool. Put into pints with some of the rinse liquid. Add 1 tsp of pickling salt per pint. Seal and boil in a canner for 2.5 - 3 hrs. Ready to enjoy.
They seem to keep forever. When you want to use them just open the jar, rinse and fry them with butter or heavy cream, onions and dill, or use in your favorite recipe. My favorite is wild mushroom chowder (clam chowder but with mushrooms instead of clams) Yumm!
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08-29-2023, 02:31 PM
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With Aspen boletes, I have simply cleaned, cut and frozen them.
I was surprised at how well they kept and cooked.
As these boletes are so plentiful, I'll leave the mature caps for spawn and just keep very young mushrooms and mature stems.
The stems are often without worms even when the cap is not,
and this makes for easy cleaning and eating.
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09-01-2023, 03:40 PM
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Hadn’t thought about picking boletes before as they are fairly common here.
Today pick, comb-tooth, puff balls and a few boletes.
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09-01-2023, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by TBark
Hadn’t thought about picking boletes before as they are fairly common here.
Today pick, comb-tooth, puff balls and a few boletes.
TBark
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OMG I think you have one king bolete there! I havnt found one in more than 30 years!
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09-02-2023, 10:47 AM
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Ya, got a few nice ones.
But never leave them outside, squirrels are thieves, ha.
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09-02-2023, 11:51 AM
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Ya, got a few nice ones.
But never leave them outside, squirrels are thieves, ha.
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Leave them a Fly Agaric.
Did that once, and the squirrel fell for the bait. 
No harm done, but he never would touch a mushroom after that.
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09-02-2023, 01:04 PM
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Just found a 6 inch and a 7 inch and a 3.5.
The bigger ones look a little rough, but I could probably salvage most inside the outer skins.
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09-02-2023, 06:39 PM
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Nice shrooms, especially that combs tooth
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09-03-2023, 03:14 AM
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Originally Posted by TBark
Hadn’t thought about picking boletes before as they are fairly common here.
Today pick, comb-tooth, puff balls and a few boletes.
TBark
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Are those puff balls edible? They turn brown then go poof when run over with a discbine. I saw a ton of them cutting hay this year
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09-03-2023, 03:52 AM
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Puff balls are edible but you need to skin them and pick them before they start turning color/powder inside. They are solid the whole way through and white if you pick them early enough to eat
Deer back strap with puff ball mushroom gravy actually turned out really good. Basically diced up the puff balls really small after skinning along with diced onion and garlic thrown in a roaster. Throw in a good size chunk of back strap with salt, pepper a few mixed herbs, a little beef stock, and a shot of red wine. Cook meat to your liking and turn the drippings into gravy
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09-03-2023, 08:03 AM
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Found this guy beside the bush while cutting hay. Is this a bolet? More importantly, an edible shroom?   
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09-03-2023, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Puff balls are edible but you need to skin them and pick them before they start turning color/powder inside. They are solid the whole way through and white if you pick them early enough to eat
Deer back strap with puff ball mushroom gravy actually turned out really good. Basically diced up the puff balls really small after skinning along with diced onion and garlic thrown in a roaster. Throw in a good size chunk of back strap with salt, pepper a few mixed herbs, a little beef stock, and a shot of red wine. Cook meat to your liking and turn the drippings into gravy
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Oh no!! I ran over a 5 gallon bucket of them this year! Damn, damn, damn I wondered at the time if they were ok to eat....
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09-03-2023, 09:20 AM
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Question for Smokey - what do you mean by skin them? Remove how much?
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09-03-2023, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by dfarms11
Found this guy beside the bush while cutting hay. Is this a bolet? More importantly, an edible shroom?
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Yes, and yes.
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09-03-2023, 12:26 PM
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When I was a kid on the farm, EVERBODY knew this stuff.
What the heck happened?
Lots of farming parents in the recent past sure gave up on teaching their kids about living off the land.... 
Happy to see the desire to learn. 
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09-03-2023, 01:22 PM
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Found this guy beside the bush while cutting hay. Is this a bolet? More importantly, an edible shroom?
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Yes they are aspen boletes. Edible. Very tasty. The ones that you have are an older mushrooms. I typically don’t take them when we have an abundance of them like this year. The stems are harder and woody and usually wormy. The caps have lots of spores(look like a sponge) that don’t really taste that good and during the boiling they just come off and floating around and then got tossed away with the water.
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09-03-2023, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by PartTimeHunter
Question for Smokey - what do you mean by skin them? Remove how much?
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The skin is hard on your stomach from what I read. Nothing fancy just peel it off with your fingers once you try it will make sense
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09-03-2023, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
The skin is hard on your stomach from what I read. Nothing fancy just peel it off with your fingers once you try it will make sense
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I've been eating them all my life, never heard of skinning them....don't ever recall a problem.
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09-03-2023, 03:01 PM
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I've been eating them all my life, never heard of skinning them....don't ever recall a problem.
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I am still rookie with wild mushrooms and just followed the instructions/reasons in my mushroom book
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09-03-2023, 03:20 PM
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Ended up not being able to salvage any of the large boletes, too far gone, slimy.
The best seem to be the 3 to 4 inch with orange coloured caps.
I left aprx a half a dozen or so 2 to 3 inches in diameter for next time I’m in the area, so we’ll see how big they get in a week.
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09-03-2023, 03:54 PM
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left aprx a half a dozen or so 2 to 3 inches in diameter for next time I’m in the area, so we’ll see how big they get in a week.
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Unfortunately they will likely be way too old by then. 2 - 3 inch ones are usually choice if they haven't gotten wormy yet.
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09-03-2023, 05:03 PM
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Yes, and yes.
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Cool. Thanks
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09-03-2023, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by KGB
Yes they are aspen boletes. Edible. Very tasty. The ones that you have are an older mushrooms. I typically don’t take them when we have an abundance of them like this year. The stems are harder and woody and usually wormy. The caps have lots of spores(look like a sponge) that don’t really taste that good and during the boiling they just come off and floating around and then got tossed away with the water.
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Thanks as well!
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09-04-2023, 02:58 PM
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Took my pup for a walk this morning, decided to check my honey spots after being absent for 3 days(was working so wife was walking the dog). Came upon the motherload! Not a single wormy one, all young and pretty! 
Beautiful aspen boletes!
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09-04-2023, 03:12 PM
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Good score,
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With the cool nights coming up picking the boletes early in the morning will be best. The worms won't be as active in cool mornings.
Also, with the big puffballs, if you slice them a 1/2 inch to an inch thick and use the slices like the crust of a pizza. A little pizza sauce, some pepperoni and cheeze and then roast them in the oven.
https://www.themeateater.com/cook/re...a-crust-recipe
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09-05-2023, 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
With the cool nights coming up picking the boletes early in the morning will be best. The worms won't be as active in cool mornings.
Also, with the big puffballs, if you slice them a 1/2 inch to an inch thick and use the slices like the crust of a pizza. A little pizza sauce, some pepperoni and cheeze and then roast them in the oven.
https://www.themeateater.com/cook/re...a-crust-recipe |
That sounds good! Now I wish I had stopped and picked them instead of running them over with the discbine. There was some pretty big ones. 
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