To raise Mushrooms

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (3)
Bed preparation
Mushroom spawn
Instructions (5)
  1. Let an old hot-bed be covered three or four inches thick with fine garden mould.
  2. Cover the mould three or four inches thick with mouldy long muck, of a horse muck-hill, or old rotten stubble.
  3. When the bed has lain some time thus prepared, boil any mushrooms that are not fit for use, in water.
  4. Throw the water on your prepared bed.
  5. In a day or two after, you will have the best small button mushrooms.
Original Text
To raise Mushrooms. Let an old hot-bed be covered three or four inches thick with fine garden mould, and covered that three or four inches thick with mouldy long muck, of a horse muck-hill, or old rotten stubble; when the bed has lain some time thus prepared, boil any mushrooms that are not fit for use, in water, and throw the water on your prepared bed, in a day or two after, you will have the best small button mushrooms.
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