MUSHROOM GROWING 



In using puff balls, boleti, and the full- 

 grown AgaricacecB, peeling will usually be 

 required, and the stems of pileate forms 

 should usually be scraped or peeled, depend- 

 ing upon the texture. It is entirely unnec- 

 essary to peel buttons of Agaricus campes- 

 tris and other delicate species, and in this 

 connection it may be pointed out that in the 

 most successful mushroom culture the but- 

 tons are often of giant size. Such buttons 

 may be lightly peeled or scraped, not peel- 

 ing by stripping the skin with the fingers 

 from the margin inward toward the center, 

 as should be done with older specimens. 

 Morels, clavarias, and the branched forms 

 of Hydnum and the like, cannot, of course, 

 be peeled under any circumstances, and all 

 parts of these mushrooms are edible. 



Many of the recipes given below call for 

 the use of mushroom caps, and frequently 

 no mention is made of the use to which the 

 stems may be put. It is to be noted, how- 

 ever, that in the higher qualities of com- 

 mercial mushrooms the stems are not so 



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