Mushrooms are an invaluable gift given to us by nature. They come from miracles and mysteries that our entire organic world possesses.
Mushrooms - an independent kingdom in this large world, it contains about 100 thousand species. One of them is called common boletus. It looks very beautiful, even in photographs it is quite attractive.
Common boletus: brief description
In nature, there are close to forty species of boletus. The largest in size and most valuable in its group since ancient times is considered to be an ordinary boletus. In every locality this mushroom is called by different names: birch, brown boletus , blackhead or chamomile. He is one of the best, if you do not take into account the porcini mushroom, whose close relative is and has a great resemblance to it.
Common boletus is different from others with a red-brown mucous hat that glistens against the sun in dry weather. The young mushroom has a convex shape similar to a sphere. The pores are white, sometimes they acquire a cream shade. As the hat grows, it becomes pillow-shaped, decrepit, reaches large sizes, an experienced mushroom picker is unlikely to put such a find in his basket.
The leg is 70-160 cm high, 15-30 mm thick, white, with brown scales on top, thickened below.
The pulp is odorless, tasteless, white-creamy in color, which does not change at the cut.
Mushrooms grow very quickly, full maturity occurs on the seventh day, and after two or three days they become unusable.
Common boletus: places of growth
Pereberezik has a “speaking name”, uttering which, you can accurately name the place of his settlement - where the birches grow.
Mushrooms of this species begin to grow at the very beginning of summer and yield crops until late autumn. In some years, their abundant numbers are found in deciduous, birch and mixed forests. There are times when birch trees settle where the spruce trees grow.
If summer and autumn are warm and rainy, you can hope for a big harvest, especially under young birch trees. Collecting boletus is easy and convenient, they are always in sight and never hide in the grass.
Cooking Application
Mushroom pickers, going on a quiet hunt, always have a desire to see a boletus in their basket. The use in cooking is wide: it is dried, boiled, pickled. It has a pleasant smell, tasty in itself, only young mushrooms are suitable for pickling.
The main value is the presence of protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, which helps to remove from the body, like a vacuum cleaner, all that is unnecessary.
Before you start cooking mushroom dishes, you need to know some rules.
• How long does it take to boil? If the mushrooms are young, you can not boil, but if they are old, the cooking time should be 20 minutes.
• How to clean them? The leg of the common boletus should be cleaned, removing roughness or spongy layers by scraping, if the fungus is old.
• How to cook? There are many recipes for dishes that include mushrooms. Common boletus is equal to white, and their use in cooking is the same. You can cook in sour cream, with potatoes, in soup, add to salads.
• Mushrooms must be processed as quickly as possible, literally within four to five hours after harvest.
Health Use
In folk medicine, the mushroom boletus has long been known. A description of his influence on the important vital functions of man was set forth in ancient books.
Obabok has been known to mushroom pickers for a long time, it attracts not only with good taste, but also with the presence of useful properties: the ability to remove toxins from the body and maintain good kidney function.
Boletus is effective in the treatment of the nervous system. It can be used in diet because of the ability to regulate blood sugar. Those who add ordinary boletus (mushrooms) to their diet, have healthy beautiful skin, and who want to lose extra pounds, can also eat boletus, which are too low in calories.
Mushrooms are contraindicated in food for people who have a stomach ulcer or intestinal disease, and in cases of intolerance - it is forbidden for children.
Common boletus - a very tasty mushroom, you can not argue with this. Dry it, cook it deliciously, treat people close to you, and feed them plenty. Such a treat will be much better and more useful than sweets. Let the mushrooms grow and multiply, and maybe in difficult lean years help fill our bins.