Hen of the woods
Anyone have an easy great recipe to share?
A friend just gave me a beauty!
A friend just gave me a beauty!
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Now is the time! I just dehydrated six quarts of them. Dont need a recipe, just use them like any mushroom. If you want to eat just the mushroom fry it in butter. 0 -
Yep: (secret recipe released)
Hen of the woods and Cherokee Indain name of Wesche. (which means mushroom in Cherokee)
I like them bettern than Morels with this prep.
Get a big pot like a turkey baster pot, outside, and tear the mushroom petals in pieces about size of crappie flays and use lots of salt in the water and bring to a major roiling boil for at least 15 min and you will see all kinds of insects and trash on the water. You can use the same water for all of the mushroom boiling. It will begin to look like Granny Clampets stump water.
You will have to stay awake and monitor the water when it first comes to a boil and reduce the heat because it will foam and boil over if the heat is not reduced fast. Then rinse the pieces in cold water, I use a colander so as the water will flow through. Place the pieces in a pan/bowl in clean water and refrigerate for 12 hours and they will be good firm consistency, like cool fish flays.
The pieces will become the consistency of fish flays. You can then freeze the extra pieces in water using one gallon zip loc bags and they will last forever. They do not freezer burn.
Fry as you would fish and enjoy.
Boiling in salt water gives the mushroom a good cleaning and adds a good taste at same time and softens the petals. If the petals are turning black it's too old to fool with.
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Never carry a Hen of the woods in your hands coming out of the woods, use a plastic trash bag with the top twisted tight. You will see why when you start boiling the pieces, all kinds of bad insects live in the mushroom, recluse spiders, centipedes, just to name couple. They are attracted to the moist environment.
If you see one still growing and want to leave it for more time the Indains would place a sharp stick in the mushroom and this was a indicator honor system that it is claimed. They will grow in same place every year if weather is right and the tree don't die. They are usually next to the root system on a large red oak tree.
I've seen them large enough that 3 or more 5 gallon plastic buckets could be filled with one mushroom. Most generally they are about 1/2 size of 5 gallon bucket.
You can find lots of info on-line. One to avoid that looks similar to a Hen is the Berkley Polypore, It has orange and white big petals that resemble fat fingers and is edible but bitter tasting and gives the Hen of the Woods a bad name, thinking they are eating a Hen of the Woods.0 -
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJack
Now is the time! I just dehydrated six quarts of them. Dont need a recipe, just use them like any mushroom. If you want to eat just the mushroom fry it in butter.
Glad you mentioned that, I thought that he was talking about grouse....[B)]0 -
Grouse are Forrest Chickens. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by toad67
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJack
Now is the time! I just dehydrated six quarts of them. Dont need a recipe, just use them like any mushroom. If you want to eat just the mushroom fry it in butter.
Glad you mentioned that, I thought that he was talking about grouse....[B)]
Yeah, me too.0
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