Fall - a wonderful time for campaigns to the forest on mushrooms with a bast basket. If you brought home rich production, it is necessary to process it so that as much as possible to keep aroma and taste. Only drying of mushrooms fully answers these wishes.
It is required to you
- - mushrooms;
- - pure cotton fabric;
- - threads;
- - oven with a lattice;
- - glass or metal tins.
Instruction
1. The majority of lamellar mushrooms have bitterness, it is impossible to dry such product because the unpleasant smack after processing doesn't pass. From tubular are suitable for drying: aspen mushrooms, cepes, mossiness mushrooms, birch mushrooms, slippery jacks, dubovik, kozlyak. Marsupials mushrooms also are suitable for such processing: truffles white, smorchkovy hats, morels.
2. It is worth to remember also about tinder funguses. From them it is possible to dry a mushroom ram, tinder funguses lamellar, branched and motley. Suitable for drying: autumn honey agarics, motley mushroom umbrella, podvishennik, champignons, cervine mushroom and cheshuychatka fleecy. From lisichkovy it is possible to subject to such processing only chanterelles ordinary.
3. Mushrooms before drying need to be sorted carefully. Choose the strongest and fresh products, they shouldn't be worm-eaten. You can sort mushrooms by the sizes and grades. Thoroughly clean them from all dirt, leaves, the earth and needles.
4. It is undesirable to wash mushrooms before drying because they very well absorb moisture and longer remain crude, it is better to wipe them with a clean damp rag. Don't forget to cut mushrooms on thin accurate slices. Separate hats from legs, cut thin legs lengthways on two-four parts, and thick – on circles.
5. The lightest option is drying of mushrooms in the open air. For this purpose on the street there has to be a hot and sunny weather, the rain will spoil mushrooms. Spread out products to pure fabric which should be spread on a dry plain surface. Mushrooms shouldn't close each other from fresh air, spread out each part separately from another.
6. It is possible to string mushrooms on rather thick threads and to hang out this beads in roast, but the shady place. Also the balcony of the city apartment will approach. If weather isn't suitable for drying of thick damp autumn mushrooms, use artificial heat.
7. It is possible for an oven 60–70 degrees have to be. The door has to be slightly slightly opened that fresh air inside arrived. Duration of such drying is 7-12 hours. When mushrooms become fragile, processing comes to the end.
8. Ready dried mushrooms should be stored in the closed metal or glass jar indoors with a temperature of 8-10 degrees. Well aired dry cellar also will be suitable for this purpose. Such conditions are necessary that mushrooms didn't absorb moisture or foreign smells, otherwise products can grow mouldy and dampen.