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Porcini Mushrooms

This page first published: Jun 22, 2004 · Updated: Oct 4, 2020 · by CooksInfo. Copyright © 2021 · This web site may contain affiliate links · This web site generates income via ads · Information on this site is copyrighted. Taking whole pages for your website is theft and will be DCMA'd. See re-use information.
Dried Porcini MushroomsDried Porcini Mushrooms
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  • 1 Cooking Tips
  • 2 Nutrition
  • 3 Storage Hints
  • 4 History Notes
  • 5 Language Notes

Porcini Mushrooms are pale brown with a meaty texture and a rich, woodsy flavour.

They don’t have gills underneath the cap; they have pores instead. The caps can be anywhere from 1 to 10 inches wide (2.5 to 25 cm.) They are still collected from the wild; efforts to cultivate them domestically have not yet succeeded (as of 2004.)

They are available fresh or dried, canned or frozen. When buying fresh ones, choose ones that are firm and plump.

Outside of Europe, they are usually only available dried, though they do grow in China and Mexico. Dried Porcini exported from China and South America is usually actually a mushroom that is a close relative, Slippery Jack.

Cooking Tips

Before cooking discard the stem, and scrape off the pores underneath as they become slimy and unpleasant when cooked.

Cook for at least 5 minutes

Nutrition

Don’t eat Porcini raw, as raw ones have in them a protein that is indigestible that can irritate people’s stomachs. They always need to be cooked. Cooking also develops the flavour.

Storage Hints

They dry well for storage.

History Notes

From the descriptions left by Pliny in his Natural History, it is very probable that what the Italians now call Porcini mushrooms are what the Romans called “fungi suilli”. Both words mean “pig mushrooms”, referring to the zeal with which wild and other pigs seek them out as food.

Language Notes

Called “ceps” in the UK.

Tagged With: French Food, Italian Food, Roman Food

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