Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 0091

Back in the 1990s I became increasingly interested in picking mushrooms. That was mainly because I had access to a really good place to pick chanterelles. I'd go there and come home in an hour with five or ten pounds (3-4 kg) of beautiful fresh sweet-smelling chanterelles. For several years I'd just blitz cooking with them, which was nice enough, but by the late '90s I was trying to dry them. Here, in 2000, I tried to dry some in the oven. I learnt very quickly that was the wrong way as the temperature was far too high and they cooked instead of dried. I switched right away to a slower method -- by placing them on trays on top of my refrigerator where warm air from the back of the fridge wafted over them and -- in a couple of days -- made them perfectly dessicated. Then I would freeze the dried mushrooms; they keep for years in that state. The mushrooms in this picture cooked, and I ended up freezing some of them but they were not as pleasant as properly dried ones. I lost acess to that chanterelle ground a few years later and it was torn up for new houses soon after that. I haven't found a good spot since to pick my chanterelles. This was Ektachrome 100 SW in the Nikon FE.