Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them

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Author

Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896

Title

Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognizable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species

Credits

Produced by Peter Vachuska, Paul Marshall, Dave Morgan, Illustration images from The Internet Archive (TIA) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Mushrooms

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46514

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46514

Release Date

August 5, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them
2. 2.Introduction — POPULAR TESTS REFUTED — "A POISONOUS MUSHROOM" — RULES FOR THE VENTURESOME — MUSHROOM POISONING
3. 3.The Deadly Amanita — THE POISONOUS FLY-MUSHROOM — THE POISONOUS ALKALOID
4. 4.Agarics — CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI — AGARICINI
5. 5.EDIBLE AGARICS — MEADOW MUSHROOM — HORSE-MUSHROOM — ST. GEORGE'S MUSHROOM — TRUE FAIRY-RING CHAMPIGNON — FALSE OR POISON CHAMPIGNON — THE PASTURE MUSHROOM — THE RUSSULA GROUP — THE GREEN RUSSULA — PURPLE RUSSULA — YELLOW-GILLED RUSSULA — VARIOUS-GILLED RUSSULA — POISONOUS OR EMETIC MUSHROOM — THE OYSTER MUSHROOM — THE ELM MUSHROOM — SHAGGY-MANE MUSHROOM — INKY MUSHROOM — MILKY MUSHROOM — THE CHANTARELLE
6. 6.Polyporei — THE BOLETI — EDIBLE TUBE MUSHROOM — ROUGH-STEMMED BOLETUS — THE YELLOW-CRACKED BOLETUS — YELLOW-FLESHED BOLETUS — CONE-LIKE BOLETUS — SUSPICIOUS BOLETI — THE VEGETABLE BEEFSTEAK — THE SULPHUROUS POLYPORUS
7. 7.Miscellaneous Fungi — THE HEDGEHOG MUSHROOM — THE MEDUSA HYDNUM — THE CORAL OR CLUB FUNGUS — THE MOREL — HELVELLA — PUFF-BALLS
8. 8.Mushroom Spore-prints
9. 9.Recipes — 1 Mushroom Soup — 2 Purée of Mushrooms — 3 Mushroom Stew — 4 Broiled Mushrooms on Toast — 5 Mushrooms à la Provençal — 6 Mushrooms à la Crème — 7 Mushroom Ragoût — 8 Stewed Mushrooms on Toast — 9 Champignon — 10 Chantarelle Stew — 11 Hydnum Stew — 12 Roast Mushrooms — 13 Baked Russula — 14 Baked Procerus — 15 Cottagers' Procerus Pie — 16 Baked Gambosus — 17 Fried Mushrooms on Toast — 18 Mushrooms with Bacon — 19 Mushrooms en Caisse — 20 Hungarian Soup of Boleti — 21 Boletus Fritters — 22 Beefsteak Mushroom — 23 The Oyster Mushroom — 24 Polyporus Stew — 25 Ragoût of Morels or Helvella — 26 Stuffed Morels — 27 Morelles à la Italienne — 28 Clavaria Stew — 29 Fried Clavaria — 30 Puff-ball Fritters, Omelettes, Sweetbreads, and Soufflé — 31 Mushroom Salad — 32 Pickled Mushrooms — 33 Mushroom Catsup — 34 Dried Mushrooms — Menu
10. 10.Bibliography — AMERICAN — ENGLISH — FRENCH
11. 11.INDEX

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