Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> On May 18, 4:09 pm, Nancy2 > wrote:
>
>>On May 18, 3:40 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>We just got back from a long weekend that included the yearly garage
>>>sales at our weekend cottage community. Among many other good scores
>>>we got a pound of morels. I've never had them and only know people
>>>rave about them. The lady who was selling them claimed her favorite
>>>way to cook them was an egg wash and light breading before frying up.
>>>One site said to soak in salt water to kill the little critters. This
>>>was an impulse purchase so they're now frozen which seems to be ok.
>>
>>>Anyone have any tried and true experiences/recipes for these
>>>incredibly expensive fungi?
>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>>Lou
>>
>>Oh, man, I don't think they should have been frozen...I don't know
>>anyone here in Morel country who freezes them. I would think they'd
>>get mushy.
>>
>>Just clean them a little (what critters???)
>
>
> Worms. I've seen 'em.

Slugs. A brief sal****er soak will flush them out. I know slugs are
next of kin to snails and people eat *those* things but I'd just as soon
not.

Morels are great but as a kid it took a lot of convincing to get me to
try one after I saw what came out of the ones we picked from the woods
behind our house. IMO, the sal****er soak is pretty much mandatory.