Cheezy wrote:So when a got FIVE morels growing in MY GARDEN this year I was overjoyed
Sounds good. I've twice been back to the site I found the first one at, but despite a good hunt around there was not another morel to be found.
My book clearly several times does stress that the morel MUST be cooked
I saw that on one website about them, but others didn't mention it at all, and nor did Food For Free. Maybe Dave or someone can clarify this (I did try a thin sliver of it raw, but detected no ill effects).
Just to confuse things, apparently it is
possible to eat the false morel, but it must be cooked and rinsed two or three times before the toxins are rendered safe, and even breathing in the vapour from cooking them can be mildly deadly. Apparently just being in the same room as a false morel can bring on headaches and nausea, yet it seems these things are
a delicacy in Scandinavia. It makes you wonder 1) how, and 2) why, anybody would even want to try to find a way of eating something so poisonous.