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By: LivingSmall » “You have to eat it, to save it.”

LivingSmall » “You have to eat it, to save it.” — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:12:37 +0000

[...] Last spring, I was driving back from my morel bonanza, when I came across a small herd of buffalo. There were maybe twenty or thirty of them — cows with calves, a few bulls — enormous, shaggy beasts standing in a swale that green we only get in the spring, with the backside of the Absaroka range rising behind them. It gave you a sense of what it must have been like when this country sustained great herds of buffalo. It was at once an inspiring and disheartening sight. They were so lovely, and there were so few of them. [...]

By: cmf

cmf — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:43:32 +0000

I’ve currently got them on baking racks just air-drying — although I hear you can do them on a very low oven as well. The classic method is to string them on thread and hang them to dry — but they were pretty fragile until they started to dry out, so I was afraid they’d fall apart. We have an advantage here because it’s a very arid part of the country — only about 13 inches of rain a year and average humidity is 20-30%. In the past I’ve dried them out until crunchy and then put them up in canning jars, but if you have trouble with mold, you might try drying them and then keeping them in the freezer in a ziploc bag.

By: Mouse

Mouse — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:54:43 +0000

Fungi foraging! Fabulous!
Please tell, how do you dry them so they’ll last the winter without going mouldy????