Ring cap - A mushroom from the family Even experienced mushroom pickers sometimes ignore this representative of the mushroom kingdom, and quite in vain. Due to its excellent taste, the mushroom is considered a delicacy. And you can meet him not only in the forests, but also in mountainous terrain.
Other name
The cap is ringed, it is Rozites caperata. The name is explained very simply: the hat of a young mushroom resembles a cap, and on the stem it has a white ring. In the people it is also called the hen, the guardian white, roztes dim, Turks.
Without pretreatment white dung beetles, bitter, oyster mushrooms, aspen milk mushrooms, black milk mushrooms, duboviki, yellow-red rows, parrots, syringes, morels, morel hats, and sulfur-yellows tinder should not be consumed.
Edibility
This mushroom belongs to the 4th group of food suitability, which means that it can be eaten both in salted and boiled form.
Important! Mushrooms are excellent absorbents that absorb a lot of substances, including harmful ones. Therefore, it is not necessary to collect them in ecologically unfavorable areas. It is fraught with poisoning, even edible species of mushrooms.
How does it look
The cap of the annular cap varies from 5 to 15 cm in diameter. In a small mushroom, the hat resembles an egg in shape, but as it grows, it expands into a hemispherical shape with edges curved inward. It is gray-yellow, straw-yellow or ocher color. It has a wrinkled surface, and often it cracks.
Did you know? There are so many varieties of mushrooms on our planet that scientists still cannot give an exact figure. It is believed that for one type of plant, there are about 6 species of fungi.
The plates are not too thick, they have a yellowish or light brown color in a young mushroom and change it to brownish ocher as it matures.
The flesh is loose, white, yellowing on exposure to air. She has a pleasant spicy scent.
The foot of the ring-shaped cap is white, sometimes yellowish over the mushroom ring. The length varies from 2 to 12 cm. The upper part of the leg has pronounced yellowish scales. Spore bag - from rust brown to ocher color. Disputes - 12 to 8 μm ocher color.
Gathering in the forest for mushrooms, pay attention to the poisonous mushrooms that must be avoided - pepper, gall, dung beetle, satanic.
Seasonality and habitats
Ring-shaped cap is collected from mid-July to late September on acidic, moist soils. Most often it can be found on the territory of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. But also it grows in more northern places, up to Greenland. Prefers coniferous and mixed forests.
Mushrooms grow in large groups, you can often meet them in the thickets of blackberry, under the spruce, birch or oak trees.
How does the ringed cap: video
What can be confused
Despite the fact that the ringed cap is edible, it is better to begin its collection with an experienced mushroom picker. The thing is that visually the mushroom resembles a poisonous pale toadstool, so with the slightest doubt you should abandon the suspicious mushroom. Also, some species of amanitas are classified as doubles of the annular cap.
It can also be confused with some other members of the Spiderweb genus, including the inedible ones (Spiderweb purple Cortinarius traganus).
Important! Plates of poisonous mushrooms are always white regardless of age.
Eating
In the food is best to eat young mushrooms with still unexplored caps. In general, it is better to use only caps for cooking, because the legs are stiff, especially if the mushroom is already old.
Taste qualities
In taste is no worse than champignon. It has a pleasant smell and taste, reminiscent of meat. Best of all, its taste qualities are revealed in dishes from young mushrooms.
What are suitable for
Chicken mushroom is used in the same form as most other mushrooms: fried, stewed, boiled, dried and marinated. It is prepared as a separate dish, and as an additive.
Did you know? In Poland, a hangover was treated with a decoction of a ringed cap.
How to pickle
The easiest way to cook this mushroom is to marinate it. Here is a list of ingredients you need for this:
- ringed cap - 1 kg;
- salt - 50 g;
- bay leaf - 2-3 leaves;
- 9% table vinegar - 100 ml;
- Pepper, horseradish, dill, mustard seeds - to taste.
In order to marinate the annular cap, you must perform the following steps:
- Boil the mushrooms in a liter of water (about 20 minutes), fold in a colander and rinse them thoroughly under running water.
- In another pan, cook the marinade from the prepared ingredients: laurel leaves, salt, pepper, horseradish, dill, mustard seeds are put into the prepared water. Boil 5 minutes after boiling, then add vinegar.
- In the prepared marinade pour mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes.
- Spread out in prepared jars, screw on the lids and turn them upside down.
Learn how to pickle boletus, honey agaric, milk mushrooms, ryadovki, chanterelles.
Banks with pickled mushrooms stored in a cool dry place.
Ring-shaped cap - a mushroom that has excellent taste and a wide range of growth, so it is sold and prepared in different countries. Thanks to its taste, it has found wide application in various dishes: soups, salads, and as an independent dish.
Should I collect the cap ringed: reviews
In the summer, inspired by the Venezuelan Mushrooms from the Irinino site, I tried to prepare hats for the winter by slightly changing the technology (I already wrote in the comments to the recipe on the site)
1 kg of mushrooms-caps boiled without salt (I carefully drained the liquid, because otherwise they taste a little bit bitter)
100 g of vegetable oil
100 g of water
2 cha. spoons of salt
4-5 tea. spoons of sugar
spices to taste (I took black and fragrant bell pepper, bay leaf, garlic and an umbrella of dill with ripe seeds)
Vinegar - in terms of 9%, I got 88 g. For my taste, it is possible and slightly less.
In a thick-walled saucepan, heated the butter, laid out mushrooms, stirring, brought to a boil. Added water, salt, sugar, boiled for 10 minutes, added vinegar and spices, boiled for another 5 minutes under the lid. Laid out in a sterilized one-liter jar (this amount was enough exactly), rolled up.
I put the bank on the DR colleagues. Mushrooms scattered in an instant, although colleagues are not surprised with mushrooms - they all collect and cook.
So next year I take a bigger backpack, collect caps - and marina, marina, marina!
