Chapter 9796: Delicious Mushrooms
As soon as Li Qiuyue entered the forest, she saw several milk mushrooms. "Bah, they are all buds."
The surface of milk fungus is smooth, the stem has no ring band, the color of the fungus is earthy red or amber, and the edges are rolled inward. The stipe is solid and cylindrical, with a nearly smooth surface and the same color as the cap.
The flesh is white, and the wound turns brown after breaking, and white latex flows out of the broken part. The gills are white or yellowish, and the wound turns brownish yellow.
Milk mushrooms have a fresh, crispy and delicious taste with a slightly spicy flavor. People in the mountains usually stir-fry them with garlic, red and green peppers or dry-fry them. Both flavors taste great.
Zhao Huifang looked around and said to the others, "Let's go straight from here to Shanwowo to see if the Altissima has grown yet."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Okay, whoever goes out first will wait on the slope."
After agreeing, the three of them each carried their vegetable baskets and walked towards the woods.
Yang Chunyan held the basket in one hand and bent over to carefully search for mushrooms hidden under the bushes and dead leaves and weeds.
After the mushrooms grow out, they will mostly be covered by leaves and weeds. It will be difficult to pick up the mushrooms if you don't pull away the weeds and dead leaves.
Some mushrooms like to hide under leaves, and some look very similar to dead leaves, so you can't find them unless you look carefully.
Also, if you see any raised areas on the leaves or soil, go over and dig them up. Your luck is in your own hands.
Yang Chunyan would use a wooden stick to pick up weeds, dead leaves, and pine needles for inspection from time to time: the white agaric with umbrella skirts on the stems is poisonous and cannot be eaten, the yellow agaric is also poisonous; the bitter beef liver is poisonous and cannot be eaten, and the trumpet mushroom with a cap covered with fly droppings is not to be eaten!
Going further ahead, a yellow boletus with thick skin and flesh appeared in front of me. "Bah, it would be great if I could have a few more of these top-quality ones!"
Boletus, also known as Chopper mushroom and big-foot mushroom, is called big-foot mushroom by people in Ning'an area.
This kind of mushroom mainly has white, yellow and black varieties, among which white boletus is the most delicious and nutritious. Boletus has a large body, thick flesh, thick stems, and a delicious and sweet taste.
The cap is flat and hemispherical, feels a bit woody, and is fleshy and loose when it first grows out.
The cap of the bigfoot mushroom is yellow-brown, smooth to the touch, and not sticky. The flesh is white and smells like soy sauce. Take it home, wash it, cut some bacon or ham, add some garlic cloves and a handful of green and red peppers, and stir-fry it until it tastes spicy and fresh.
Yang Chunyan patted the mushroom cap, pulled it up with a little force and broke it off, leaving a small section of the root and mycelium. You can come here to take a look in a few days.
If it is too small, cover it with dead grass and pine needles, leaving a nest for next time.
She happily put it into the vegetable basket and continued to pick up the dead leaves and weeds nearby.
When picking mushrooms and finding the first one, remember to push aside the nearby bushes and dead leaves and take a closer look. There may be another one nearby, because mushrooms also like to invite friends and maybe even play mahjong together!
As expected, Yang Chunyan saw a big-foot mushroom half hidden in the soil under the dead leaves. As usual, she patted the mushroom cap before pulling it up and putting it in her backpack.
Bigfoot mushroom is not only popular here, but also in the neighboring Yunnan Province.
She recalled the jokes she had seen in her previous life: eating lamb in the north and crabs in the south, eating all kinds of food in Guangdong and Guangxi, eating everything in Sichuan hot pot, and eating mushrooms from Yunnan.
Compared with the Yunnan people's obsession with mushrooms, Yang Chunyan, a Sichuanese, feels inferior!
After picking up several big-foot mushrooms in succession, Yang Chunyan continued forward and picked up several delicious rice soup mushrooms. Further ahead, she saw a patch of brush mushrooms and several blue-headed mushrooms.
The blue-headed mushroom is spherical when it is just unearthed, and gradually expands into an oblate shape after maturity. The cap changes from light green to turquoise and finally gray. The flesh of the mushroom is white with a piece of turquoise scale on the surface.
It is rich in protein, amino acids, plant fiber and other ingredients, has no special smell, tastes delicious when fried, and has a very tender texture.
People in the mountains only pick mushrooms they recognize and take them home. Those they don't recognize rot in the mountains and no one picks them up. For example, the red mushrooms that were worth thousands of yuan a pound thirty or forty years ago, no one picks them up and takes them home to eat now.
The scientific name of the brush fungus is coral fungus. As the name suggests, it looks very similar to the coral on the seabed and has many bright colors.
You can pick up white, yellow, and lavender brushwood mushrooms and take them home. The brightly colored purple brushwood mushrooms are poisonous. Eating them can cause diarrhea in mild cases, and even the whole family can be bedridden in severe cases.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brush mushrooms have the nutritional benefits of supplementing calcium, calming the mind, preventing calcium loss in the human body, strengthening bones, nourishing blood and calming the nerves.
Yang Chunyan felt that there were too many and her hands were too busy to handle them all. She turned around and saw Zhao Huifang coming over with a basket, "Sister-in-law, come over quickly and pick up some mushrooms."
"I just picked some up down there." Zhao Huifang walked over. "What did you pick up? I picked up a few blue-headed mushrooms and a sand mushroom as big as a steamed bun."
"I picked up a few big-foot mushrooms, and when I came up I saw these brush mushrooms."
The two of them were talking and working non-stop, and soon they had put all the mushrooms into the basket.
The vegetable basket was also full. Yang Chunyan put down the backpack and put the mushrooms in it. The two continued to walk forward and picked up a few trumpet mushrooms that looked like morning glories.
Walking up, we reached the chestnut forest in the village, and two pheasants fluttered out from the grass.
"Chunyan, look at the pheasant!" Zhao Huifang threw the sickle in her hand, but missed it. She said frustratedly, "I wish I had a sand gun."
Yang Chunyan remembered that Zhou Huaian said he wanted to buy a sand gun, and she didn’t know what to do.
The two of them scanned the forest with their eyes like radars. Suddenly, Yang Chunyan saw a patch of egg-yellow color in front of her. She walked closer and exclaimed, "Oh my god! It's all chanterelles."
Chanterelles also have medicinal value, can clear the eyes, benefit the stomach, can treat rough or dry skin caused by vitamin A, corneal softening, dry eyes and night blindness, and can also treat diseases caused by certain respiratory and digestive tract infections.
Chanterelles are solid, fleshy mushrooms that are apricot to egg yellow in color.
The cap of the newly grown chanterelles is flat, and when mature, it is concave, with the edges stretched and rolled inward. The flesh is slightly thick and egg-yellow in color. The gills are ridged, narrow, and extend downward to the stem. The stem is cylindrical, the same color as the cap or slightly lighter, and the stem is smooth and solid.
Mature chanterelles look a bit like morning glories and are very brightly colored. They are tougher than ordinary mushrooms, feel a bit springy when pinched, and have a distinct apricot scent.
Zhao Huifang put down the basket and picked them up. "Chunyan, you are lucky. We didn't pick any chanterelles when we came here last year, but you saw so many when you came here."
Yang Chunyan likes to eat chanterelles the most. "When the weather gets cold, the chanterelles are dried and stewed in chicken soup, which is the most delicious."
"It tastes better when stewed with pheasant." Zhao Huifang put the chanterelles in the basket. "Two years ago, Huai'an and Yiding went up the mountain to help Uncle Daqing guard the mountain. They shot two pheasants and came back. Mom stewed them with chanterelles. I still remember the taste."
"I remember that, too." Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue also came over with their baskets, "You're lucky to have found so many chanterelles."
Yang Chunyan turned her head and smiled: "Second sister-in-law, what kind of mushrooms did you and third sister-in-law pick up?"
Li Qiuyue put down the basket and said, "I picked up a few dried mushrooms, as well as yellow mushrooms, blue-headed mushrooms, and milk mushrooms."
"I just picked up a few trumpet mushrooms, big-foot mushrooms, and some yellow cap mushrooms."
The four of them picked up all the chanterelles and put them into the basket in no time.
(End of this chapter)
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