MUSHROOM POWDER

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (6)
  1. Take the thickest large buttons you can get, peel them; cut off the root end, but do not wash them.
  2. Spread them separately on pewter dishes, and set them in a slow oven to dry.
  3. Let the liquor dry up into the mushrooms, it makes the powder stronger.
  4. Let them continue in the oven till you find they will powder.
  5. Beat them in a marble mortar, and sift them through a fine sieve, with a little Chyan pepper, and pounded mace.
  6. Bottle it, and keep it in a dry closet.
Original Text
To make MUSHROOM POWDER. TAKE the thickest large buttons you can get, peel them; cut off the root end, but do not wash them, spread them separately on pewter dishes, and set them in a slow oven to dry, let the liquor dry up into the mushrooms, it makes the powder stronger, and let them continue in the oven till you find they will powder, then beat them in a marble mortar, and sift them through a fine sieve, with a little Chyan pepper, and pounded mace; bottle it, and keep it in a dry closet.
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