is considered richest mushroom month for mushroom pickers therefore they with pleasure wait for approach of this season. Especially the middle of August is considered the real mushroom paradise as the third November layer of Antoshek begins. What only mushrooms you will not meet in the August forest! Multi-colored hats and attract: "Put me in a basket!". It is the real masquerade of various mushrooms. Honey agarics, boletuses, saffron milk caps, milk mushrooms, chanterelles, coral milky caps, mossiness mushrooms, aspen mushrooms … Here and will be enough for frying, both for salting, and for pickling, and for drying. So if you want to stock up with mushrooms for all winter, then August is the it, the hottest mushroom time.
Remember that the amount of cepes can be foreseen on red fly agarics that poison with aspens krasnogolovik hide, on stubs honey agarics grow. The August gift to mushroom pickers – saffron milk caps is madly beautiful. Their fast emergence is foretold, motley coral milky caps and umbrellas.
Also in August milk mushrooms, subhazel groves, well-known russulas "are found" in the forest.
Miracle that in August, in the forest it is possible to meet up to 120 types and types of edible fungi alone. And all these mushrooms pass from summer at fall. So, now is more detailed about each mushroom
- Cepe
Of course, we will begin with the most favourite production of the mushroom picker – cepe. Do not forget that loyal friends of a boletus are red fly agarics. If in the forest there are a lot of fly agarics, then and cepes much. It is remarkable that at the cepes growing in the pine forest, a hat dark brown is frequent with a violet shade, in fir-tree — brown or reddish-brown, in deciduous forests — lighter. White pulp, dense, does not change color that is especially appreciated. What is only not done with cepes … both pickle, and salted, and dried, and fried, so this mushroom is universal. Also also freeze, for example, about New Year.
- Honey agarics
Honey agarics rather often meet in our forests. What especially pleases so is that honey agarics do not grow on one therefore from one stub it is possible to gather a quarter of a basket. They are especially tasty in a marinated and fried look. The danger is constituted by only false honey agarics which also skilled mushroom pickers cannot sometimes identify. False honey agarics are painted in gray-yellow or brick-red color, have no rings and scales on a leg, unpleasantly smell and have sharp taste.
- Saffron milk cap
The saffron milk cap is one of the most tasty mushrooms therefore it is ranked as mushrooms of the first category. They are suitable for salting as well as possible. In the place of collecting the saffron milk caps are distinguished pine-forest and fir-tree. Pulp of a mushroom of bright orange color, but on a cut becomes blue. As for a leg, it hollow, short. As for preparation of saffron milk caps, they do not need to be boiled, it is only necessary to otmachivat.
- Mossiness mushroom
The mossiness mushroom is an edible fungi of the third category, at the same time it has good tastes. It is eaten in a boiled and fried look, it is also used for conservation, pickling and drying. Most often to meet a mossiness mushroom in deciduous, coniferous forests and bushes. Pleases mushroom pickers up to autumn frosts on the lit places: at the edges of roads, ditches, on edges.
- Slippery jacks
The slippery jack grows also in August. But here it is necessary to look, a worm-eaten mushroom or not as not only people, but also worms like to eat slippery jacks. These mushrooms love a pinery, exactly there most often they also meet. The hat at slippery jacks convex, its color happens from brown to yellow-brown or even olive. The only lack of slippery jacks consists in their cleaning. As it is correct to clean slippery jacks? To start them it is necessary to dry: to pour out on a tray or a baking sheet and to leave on the sun for about forty minutes. Further it is accurately husked hats of the dried mushrooms. And only after that they can be washed out.
- Aspen mushroom
The aspen mushroom is a mushroom with a bright orange hat which pleases with the taste and coloring. In August you will definitely not pass by such Antoshka by. The aspen mushroom grows in the mixed forests, it is closely connected with an aspen therefore so often it is found in aspen forests or bliz of aspens. Krasnogoloviki are tasty as in frying and cooking, and pickling, drying.
- Birch mushroom
The birch mushroom is one of the most popular mushrooms, especially he can often be met in the forest. Besides, it is possible to do any preparations for the winter of it. It is possible to fry, boil, dry, pickle. The birch mushroom has rather quiet taste and aroma, it is very easy to distinguish it in the forest, it is simple to collect and prepare.
- Chanterelles
Sisters chanterelles rather often meet in the forest. At the same time, where one chanterelle grows, also others meet there. The main feature of chanterelle is that it almost never is worm-eaten. So they can be put safely in a basket. They especially love coniferous forests, birch and mixed.
- Milk mushroom
The milk mushroom real is a mushroom with a funneled yellowish hat, lamellar from below and a light cylindrical leg. Allocate several types of this mushroom. Salty milk mushrooms extraordinary tasty therefore hostesses do not feel sorry for time and forces on preparation of mushrooms.