Paleo Magazine – August-September 2019

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Beach plums, blueberries, chokeberries,

pawpaws, hawthorn fruit, sumac

berries, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel, oxeye

daisy, mountain mint, sassafras leaves,

spicebush leaves, redbay leaves, sweet

fern, chicken-of-the-woods mushroom,

lobster mushrooms, blue milkie

mushrooms, chanterelle mushrooms,

bolete mushrooms.

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Where to find it

Beefsteaks grow from the trunk or stump of live or dead hardwood

trees like oak and chestnut.

When to harvest it

Beefsteak season runs from late summer to late fall. Older beefsteaks

will be too tough to eat. But make a note of the tree’s location in your

forager’s notebook and look again next year.

How to gather it

Since, as a good forager, you are always carrying a pocket knife with

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where it meets the tree bark. Carry it home in a paper bag rather than

plastic so it can breathe. Mushrooms stored in plastic bags will grow a

surface layer of bacteria.

How to prepare it

One of the very few mushrooms best eaten raw, it’s saturated with

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bacteria and bugs. Slice thinly and serve in a salad or as a substitute

for beef in a carpaccio dish.

How to preserve it

Soak it in water with salt and pepper, and then run through a

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Sliced, you will be shocked

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streaky bacon (no other

mushroom resembles that).

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