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each in paper, and cook them in a pan, adding a 

 spoonful of oil as occasion may require. If preferred, 

 a few slices of fowl or game may be added. 



Doubtless it would not be difficult to collect together 

 one hundred recipes for cooking mushrooms, but this 

 is not our present duty. We have furnished sufficient 

 for ordinary use, and feminine ingenuity may suggest 

 others. It cannot be too often repeated that the 

 fresher the mushrooms are at the time of cooking the 

 better will be the result. A connoisseur will detect, 

 almost at once, the difference between the flavour of 

 the common and the horse . mushroom. And so with 

 all other species ; no two of them are precisely the 

 same, so that, when other species are recommended, 

 it must not be presumed that, when cooked, they will 

 be precisely like the mushroom, because they will be 

 precisely different. 



V.— BROWN MUSHROOMS. 



Under the title of " Brown Mushrooms " we must 

 have a few words to say on two or three kinds, which 

 resemble in many points the ordinary mushroom, are 

 equally excellent, but are unfortunately by no means 

 common. 



Scaly Brown Mushroom {Agarkus Elvensis). — 

 We have never had the good fortune to meet with 



