Orange milk-cup is one of the most piquant of all mushrooms. Up until the middle of this century it was no problem to make for the young spruce woods in autumn, crawl under the bottom branches and gather the glossy orange caps growing all around.
Apollo, the sun god of the Greeks and Romans, regarded as the perfection of masculine beauty, was depicted with a laurel wreath on his head. Caesar wore such a wreath on his triumphal marches, and modern-day winners of grand prix races are likewise honoured.
Fresh or pickled mushrooms give a delicious spicy flavour to vegetable dishes, potato soup, goulash and other stewed meats as well as to omelettes. Pickled mushrooms are served as a side-dish together with roast meats and risottos. Orange milk-cup can also be used to make an excellent ketchup. Orange milk-cup generally grows in groups in young, moist spruce woods at higher altitudes. The caps of young mushrooms curve under, spreading as they develop until, in the adult form, they are funnel-shaped. They can be identified by the spicy aroma and bright orange milk that oozes from the wound when a piece is broken off.
Garden cress, native to north Africa and western Asia, is an annual herb about 60 cm (2 ft) high. It was one of the kitchen herbs known to the Romans and it was they who introduced it to the rest of Europe. Until recently, however, it remained a forgotten herb of the past, and only occasionally is it found growing wild in waste places.
It is the principal flavouring and aromatic substance in gin. Ground juniper berries are often an ingredient of special herb mixtures.
They should be sown on the surface, which should be kept moist all the time. When the seeds have swollen they form a thick layer of mucilage and then rapidly sprout, so that within two weeks you can harvest young plants with two true leaves. Up to this point they need no feeding, for they have an ample store inside the seeds. Seeds may be sown in succession at 14-day intervals throughout the year
Apollo, the sun god of the Greeks and Romans, regarded as the perfection of masculine beauty, was depicted with a laurel wreath on his head. Caesar wore such a wreath on his triumphal marches, and modern-day winners of grand prix races are likewise honoured.
Fresh or pickled mushrooms give a delicious spicy flavour to vegetable dishes, potato soup, goulash and other stewed meats as well as to omelettes. Pickled mushrooms are served as a side-dish together with roast meats and risottos. Orange milk-cup can also be used to make an excellent ketchup. Orange milk-cup generally grows in groups in young, moist spruce woods at higher altitudes. The caps of young mushrooms curve under, spreading as they develop until, in the adult form, they are funnel-shaped. They can be identified by the spicy aroma and bright orange milk that oozes from the wound when a piece is broken off.
Garden cress, native to north Africa and western Asia, is an annual herb about 60 cm (2 ft) high. It was one of the kitchen herbs known to the Romans and it was they who introduced it to the rest of Europe. Until recently, however, it remained a forgotten herb of the past, and only occasionally is it found growing wild in waste places.
It is the principal flavouring and aromatic substance in gin. Ground juniper berries are often an ingredient of special herb mixtures.
They should be sown on the surface, which should be kept moist all the time. When the seeds have swollen they form a thick layer of mucilage and then rapidly sprout, so that within two weeks you can harvest young plants with two true leaves. Up to this point they need no feeding, for they have an ample store inside the seeds. Seeds may be sown in succession at 14-day intervals throughout the year
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