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 While I only found one morel, I did find a number of edible wild mushrooms, especially puffballs. These were growing in profusion all over the open ground and meadows of the alpine and pine forest where we were. They averaged in size from the size of my thumb or as large as a golf ball. They actually resembled golf balls littered over the ground.
I would only pick the puffballs mushrooms if they were white, firm with no hint of green, brown or black. If they were white and firm, they could be sliced up and added to soups or fried up with squirrel meat and wild onions.
There are a wide variety of ways to survive hunger in the wilderness, including edible plants, trees and mushrooms. |
   
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That summer that I spent in the mountains one of the items I found to eat was a variety of wild mushrooms. This was actually an easy transition for me since I’d grown up in Michigan looking forward to spring mushroom hunting. To this day there’s nothing that tastes as good as a batch of fried morels. Ummmm, yum.
Eventually I had so many that I decided to slice them and place them on drying racks in direct sunlight. A day in the sun would produce a crisp dried mushroom that I stored in old peanut butter jars. Those dried edible wild mushrooms lasted for a good year like that, and were still tasty when rehydrated in a stew or soup.