puffball mushrooms?

Anonymous-0 · Oct 6, 2013

We found six puff ball mushrooms all nice and white and solid .Is there away to freeze them or do any of you know a good soup or recipe for them

rrlund · Oct 6, 2013

I had some HUGE ones here last year. Didn't try to eat them,but I hear if you fry them in bacon grease they taste just like bacon.

RayP(MI) · Oct 6, 2013

Slice and fry in butter.

Janicholson · Oct 6, 2013

The best info I found was to slice them to 1/4" to 3/8" bred them after coating with olive oil then fry the slices till brown (not deep fry). Then put them in baggies with minimum air and freeze.
We had a cantelope sized ball this last week, but ate it (as above once, and chopped into small cubes fried with onions and green peppers, then fresh eggs mixed in, Yum Jim

gab · Oct 6, 2013

I found 6 of them on the edge of my yard when I mowed a week ago, about softball sized. Their about volleyball sized now. I like morals and can't find them anymore and these things grow in the yard and I'm afraid to try these.

paul · Oct 6, 2013

Didnt know what they are, I suddenly had some appear in the old hog yard a few years ago, now they are growing crazy throught the hog and cattle yard. Dozens.

Only just last week found out what they are called, wife and I were calling them 'brains' because they age and weather like a big brain looking thing.

The manure must be composted deep enough for THRN to just grow out of the ground like they do?

Paul

PJH · Oct 6, 2013

We would pick them when we were kids, and Mom would slice them thin, dip them in batter and fry them up like you would a morel. They always show up in October in this area. I saw one in the pasture a couple of evenings ago, but the wife and I are watching our cholesterol and I resisted the urge. Gotta get them when they're snow white inside - if they're turning yellow, they are past due.

You could fry up an old shoe tongue in mushroom batter and it would be good.

Zachary Hoyt · Oct 6, 2013

I agree with the frying idea, we always just eat them whenever we can find them. We have had good luck drying oyster and sulfur shelf mushrooms in a food dehydrator, but never found enough puffballs yet that we had to preserve them. Don't let them go to waste, they are really good in stir fry, on pizza, cut up in any kind of casserole type thing or wherever.
Zach

BillinCentralMO · Oct 6, 2013

Somebody post a photo. I hunt the morels with success. Never picked any other mushrooms.

Tom Bond · Oct 6, 2013

(quoted from post at 19:49:01 10/06/13) We found six puff ball mushrooms all nice and white and solid .Is there away to freeze them or do any of you know a good soup or recipe for them

These are a few pics of the fall "button" mushrooms we find each year around the end of September. I prefer these 3 to 1 over morels. We boil them down to clean and cook, then freeze in bags for use all year. Soups, roasts, you name it. Also a picture of a "Hen of the Woods" that is edible too. These are from last year. This year we haven't found any! Even tried one last time today with all the rain and cool weather last week. Nothing.
Maybe next year......

PJH · Oct 6, 2013

Bill - you've seen the puffballs that dry up and make a dust cloud when you stomp them? Same thing, except they are pure and white when they first show up. Pastures and orchards are good places to find them. I remember finding nearly a 5 gallon bucket full in about 1980. Mom was still living, and she fried them up and the neighborhood had a feast. If no one posts a pic of one by morning, I'll get a pic of the one I saw the other day, that is if the cows haven't stepped on it.

PJH · Oct 6, 2013

Here's a couple of pics I found with a Google search. When you cut him open, he should be white as snow. They turn yellow as they age - we didn't eat them then. Do some studying and make sure you know what you're eating. I never gave it a thought growing up. Mom wouldn't poison us, ha.

Paul

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