mushrooms – it is tasty, but from them will not cook soup and will not put in pie. Frozen or dried mushrooms are for this purpose necessary. It is necessary to freeze and dry mushrooms fresh. Do not buy mushrooms from strangers – it is unknown where they were brought together, and mushrooms instantly absorbs all hazardous substances.
Before processing the mushrooms should be touched and checked that was not poisonous or inedible. The worm-eaten, rumpled or stale mushrooms should be postponed. Aspen mushrooms and cepes can hold on in the fridge no more day, it is better to process slippery jacks and birch mushrooms at once after collecting, it is possible to store chanterelles in the fridge several days.
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Clean mushrooms from dirt and branches, cut off the earth on a leg. Before drying and freezing it is better not to wash mushrooms. They very well absorb water therefore will long dry and can grow mouldy, and in the freezer water will turn into ice.
Fresh it is necessary to freeze birch mushrooms, aspen mushrooms and cepes. So they will keep the freshness and elasticity. In a boiled look they can become watery and lose tastes. Chanterelles and honey agarics can also be frozen fresh.
To keep a place maximum in the freezer, mushrooms should be cut small. Distribute mushrooms a thin layer on a tray and turn on the freezer on a maximum that they were quicker frozen. In 12 hours it is possible to take away a tray from the freezer and to pour out mushrooms in a bag.
Before freezing boil mushrooms. Time and a way of cooking depends on a species of mushrooms. It is necessary to cook honey agarics not less than 30 minutes as they can cause indigestion. After cooking the mushrooms have to flow down. Leave them on a colander for an hour. You can wring out mushrooms hands that excess moisture left. Later put mushrooms in a bag and remove in the freezer.
It is impossible to freeze mushrooms repeatedly at all – at the exit tasteless porridge will turn out. It is necessary to defreeze mushrooms slowly – just put them for the night in the fridge. That aspen mushrooms and cepes did not become watery after freezing, cut off at them a sponge.
It is possible to dry such species of mushrooms: chanterelles, white, slippery jacks and aspen mushrooms. Before drying the mushrooms should be cut largely (on a leg and a hat). Small mushrooms can be not cut.
It is possible to dry mushrooms in the sun. If your balcony comes to sunny side, you can take them there. They should be strung on a thread and to suspend. You watch that mushrooms were not blown by wind. Usually they dry in 3-4 days.
Lay out mushrooms on a baking sheet in one layer and put them in an oven. Slightly open a door of an oven that air got. You can include the convection mode.
It is necessary to dry several hours at a temperature of 70-80 degrees.
The most convenient way is to dry mushrooms in the furnace. At first mushrooms should be put in the caught a cold furnace (temperature has to be about 50 degrees inside) for 3-4 hours. Mushrooms will become soft, all juice will leave. The next stage is a drying in the furnace at a temperature of 70-80 degrees. If mushrooms became dry and fragile, means all of you correctly made.
Do not put mushrooms in the furnace at once after a fire chamber at all or during a fire chamber – will burn down.
It is necessary to store dried mushrooms in a dry ceramic or glass jar. A part of mushrooms can be ground in the coffee grinder. The received powder can be used for aromatization of dishes.
Before preparation the mushrooms should be wetted in hot water for 2 hours. After soaking replace water and boil thoroughly mushrooms in new water.