How to properly salt mushrooms

Mushrooms were once the most popular mushrooms in Russia, overtaking even boletus in this regard. Now they are also considered desirable prey for mushroom pickers, who harvest rich prey from them, which is why they have to think about how to salt mushrooms in order to preserve them for a long time. Canning is one of the oldest ways to prepare such a product, and over the centuries, several methods have accumulated that allow you to properly salt delicious mushrooms and then, during late autumn and long winter, please your family with such preservation.

It is possible to salt mushrooms with two of the most common methods: cold and hot. Choose the one that is most to your liking and suits your circumstances, as well as the harvested variety of mushrooms. For example, cold salting is optimal for blacks, and hot salting is fine for whites. Before salting the mushrooms, in any case, pre-prepare them in a certain way. First, rinse each one under the tap, inspect, and cut off all the damaged areas with a knife, primarily those affected by wormholes.

If you plan to salt mushrooms with a cold method, be sure to soak them. The black variety of these mushrooms, which contains a bitter milky juice, is especially in need of such a procedure. Before soaking, clean the mushrooms from the accumulated debris. The water where you put them should not be too warm or, conversely, completely icy. Change it twice or three times a day. The duration of soaking depends on the subspecies of mushrooms, and the maximum is 5 days. Then proceed directly to pickle the mushrooms of the bunch.

Traditionally, it is worth salting mushrooms in wooden barrels, but it is acceptable to use pre-sterilized jars. Take the amount of salt at the rate of about 40 g per kilogram of the main product. Add a little salt to the bottom of the container, add cherry, currant leaves or horseradish, peppercorns, and, if desired, a couple of garlic cloves. To salt the mushrooms, stack them as tightly as possible in no more than 5-6 cm layers, alternating with spices. Cover the last mushroom layer with leaves, then with gauze or cloth.

Now, to successfully salt the mushrooms, place sterilized wooden mugs of suitable diameter on each container with a heavier load on top of them. Place the blanks in a cool place: refrigerator or cellar. The product will be ready in a month and a half. If you plan to salt the mushrooms in a hot way, they will have to be boiled in salt water for some time after preliminary rinsing and cleaning from contamination. Take small portions of the mushrooms, changing the water for each of them. It takes approximately half an hour for each batch to cook.

By the way, if there are a lot of mushrooms, you can use special containers for blanching to boil them. After placing the product in them, immerse it in a container with boiling salted liquid and leave it for at least a quarter of an hour. Next, before salting the mushrooms, thoroughly rinse them with cool water, then drain them in a colander. Then tamp into sterilized jars or other suitable containers with a similar amount of spices and salt. Also, after tamping them, place them under pressure in the cold. Such salting will take only 6-8 days.

Recommendations

- Different types of mushrooms grow in different places. So, white can be found in birch or pine-birch forests, yellow — in fir or spruce-fir forests, black, whose cap often reaches a 20-centimeter diameter, in birch and mixed forests and not earlier than the beginning of August.

- Some prefer to pickle only the caps of the mushrooms, and, for example, fry and eat their cut-off legs like this.

- Stamp the mushrooms into jars or other containers exclusively with the caps facing down.

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