From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   riburr wrote:   
   > Rusty Hinge wrote:   
   >> riburr wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> So, I had quite a bit of extra time today having just lost my job.   
   >>   
   >> Commiz - is jobseeking difficult your way ATM?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Foreclosed homes are on every block.  I'm in a rural area, but in town   
   > large tracts of homes-to-be are bulldozed lots with pvc sewer lines like   
   > dead, limbless trees marking each lot.  Been like that for going on two   
   > years now.  The forest looks no different in good times or bad.   
   > Lost my job today.  Will sulk, forage and cut firewood 'til next week.   
   > Maybe job foraging is similar to mushroom foraging, if so I'll probably   
   > be lucky.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Best of luck with looking for alternative remunerative time sink, and   
   >> lets hope it allows you plenty of time for fungus forays.   
   >>   
   > That's the plan and design; to catch the chips as they fall like pennies   
   > from heaven.  Could be all for the best.  I've got time now, it's a very   
   > rich commodity I'm not used to.   
      
   A cheap way of preserving many mushrooms is to salt them down. Caps like   
   Lepista and Lactarius go well, dryer ones like Agaricus are not so good,   
   but they can be preserved in oil or fat.   
      
   I dry a lot too, and these are invaluable in soups and stews - I've just   
     (this evening) made some soup with onions, parsnips, tomatoes, eddoes   
   (potatoes will do as well) kale, broccoli, some minced beef, medium   
   oatmeal, olive oil, ground black pepper, celery seed and a small handful   
   of dried Cantharellus cibarius, ground in a food processor - and it   
   tastes mainly of this last...   
      
   It shoul last for two or three days and probably cost me ffty cents (US).   
      
   I'm used to frugal living of necessity, and I found when I had to, that   
   my knowledge of fieldcraft and fungi meant that I could live off the   
   land most of the year.   
      
   Don't despair if you don't find employment soon - it'll make you very trim!   
      
   --   
   Rusty   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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