Cleaning Mushrooms

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Seven  Creeks  Roadside  Spring Water</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Seven Creeks Roadside Spring Water"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id162.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wild Mushrooms"><B><IMG SRC="0720e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><A HREF="id330.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Puffball Amanta "><B><IMG SRC="0710e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id343.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20 Sheephead "><B><IMG SRC="0730e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Picking mushrooms is the fun part, however they also need to be cleaned. These are not store bought mushrooms and there are critters after them besides you. You start by cutting off the ends of the stem to determine if there are worms in the mushroom. If you find small holes, you have worms. If the flesh is perfectly white and no holes, your mushroom is good. Keep cutting sections off the stem, sometimes the worms are only in the stems. Remember, never pick mushrooms you are unsure of.</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I>Cleaning Mushrooms </I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="18ddc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">This oyster or elephant ear has small holes in the stem, which are actually worm trails. Sometimes the worms are confined to the stem, in which if you remove the infected stem, the remainder is ok.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="18debe8e0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="142" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Here is one of the worms and the bores holes they make. These mushrooms looked good from the outside, but were wormy. I don't know what effect eating cooked worms has, but I prefer my mushrooms with no worms, or at least ones that I don't know have worms.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>