The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-03
AUTUMN MUSHROOMS.
How and Where to Find Them in
Woods and Fields.

The most common and easily recog-
nized of all the mushrooms is the con-
mon commercial one found at the hrSt-
class grocery for sale. Just Why th;s
other kinds and declared as good wake
all the rest are condemned is not known,
| but it is certain that such IS the case.
I This is found at almost any season or
the year, more abundantly in the spring
and fail. but in deep woods even the
middle of summer will give Il basket
/ full.
{ 1t is not necessary to go to the grocery
and give 90 cents a pound for this dainty:
an excursion to the woods at the END OF
the trolly lines, which row in every city
the country places far and wide VIII
/ give a delightful outing and at the same
! time furnish the material for the next
days dinner.
As 20 the location of our most sought
for mushroom. it grows anywhere, it IS
not particular and one viii find Vt in zoe
thick woods. It varies in size from tWo
inches to five across the tcD or cap as
tie parasol ike upper part is called. 1t
I also varies in color from a white to
/ tInged W n brown. When lit first comes
! up it looks like q ball. for over II is
spread q thin membrane to protect the
young plant and which breaks as the
{ plant EXPANDS. the remains being seen
on the stem in the form of an trreguier
I ring. This membrane is called the vail
and covers the silks IN their first stage OF
growth.
( The Gil1s are the toIds or plates that
lie underneath the pileus rs the CAP :
/ called. aud they resemble the leaves of
/ book or accordian plating. They are. at
first q delicate shade OF pink. deepening
in age and passing through all the darker
/ shades till they are a dark maroon color.
/ The mushroom is in hight from three 10
/ four and sometimes five inches. &c is at
its best when the cap is fully excanded
and before the gills begin to assume the
darker tints.
! To cook them they should be washed
peeled and the stems removed. Although
they lend themselves to almost any
preparation often the mushroom flavor
is destroyed by spices. and frying IN but
/ ter and strewing with bread crumbs or
stewing in a little cream viii give a de
{ Hcious dish.
There IS another variety of mushroom
which is quite as common as the COM
mercfal mushroom and which instead of
seeking woods as its habitat is so social
as to he seldom found away from the
home of man. 1t is gregarious and wants
the society of people and, Ike a vegetable
tramp is found where prosperity is seen.
It locates itself on well kept lawns, the
college campus of noted institution h9s
rurn shed enough for the students TO
study about, but 10 my surprise they
never tod them it could be eaten. lie
city parks are favOrfte abiding places for
it and not being particular as to its 10
cation | hare known it TO come mp near
the W0odpiie year a1ter year. The. front
stead claim for it.
r. asks no ones permission and with
the temerity and fearlessness shown tC-
other tran1s it settles itself where it
seems good in its own sight 1t has been
known to station itself on a tennis court
and to come up all over it SO persistently
as to utterly rout the players, VINO, morn
ing after morning, saw the conspicuous
mounds IN Irregular patches all over L,
and were Dowerless to prevent the IN
vasion. Crushing them one morning aid
no good for they ware reinforced by re
next and at last the court was given over
to the invader. and it furnished NM
delectabie meals to the neighborins
families.
This variety has as startling names as
do many of the clans that harass @Neir
neighboTs, IN Croclett's novels. and one
that seems to Indicate q Dernicious cual-
ity is the ink cap. This cognoEnen. how
/ ever merely indicates a stage of its e3-
/ istence and the latter stage at that When
it is old it at the lower edges begins 10
turn a faint, beautiful pink, which rapidly
( despens until It IS Back and j's!cL
liquid. THE colony ends by leaving q
black looking mass that hardly resembles
! vegetation. but which IS merely Us va"
OF sowing itself for all this back liquid
contains innUEnerable seeds.
LILLE c. FLINT.