Ceps

[Matty3]

Never seen so many as this year and so early

Adds to a walk when you can find these little beauties.

[Hanglow]

They've started popping up now just north of Glasgow, but they tend to start early August, not that I'm complaining now they are finally here. Last year was a great year for them

Picked these on tuesday, got a load more on wednesday though

[Matty3]

Best newspaper I have read this week do you dry or freeze em?

[Hanglow]

Dried most of them. I tend to freeze chanterelles though as they don't dehydrate well

also a nice cep pasta dish was had tonight

[Mobile Chicane]

Best season in a decade. An hour’s work yesterday:

[Jambo85]

Best time of year, some great hauls above!

Sorry for duplicate post from the pizza thread but my effort last weekend



MC - do you rate the brown birch boletes?

[Mobile Chicane]

Jambo85 said:

MC - do you rate the brown birch boletes?

Not really. I find them mushy and not particularly flavoursome, however they will do when dried if there's nothing else around.

[Hanglow]

They are ok when small, the orange ones are a bit better. Orange birch boletes do need cooked, mildly toxic when raw iirc

Scarlatina boletes are very good and often left alone by other pickers - can be confused with a couple of ones you don't want to eat though!

[Jambo85]

Cheers.

I found these in the highlands a couple of days ago under pine. I don’t think they are true ceps, but I am not sure which close relative they are. They were growing alongside one of the red stemmed varieties which as someone remarked above I leave alone as I’m not confident to pick the right one!

Any thoughts?

[Hanglow]

the pine bolete, boletus pinophilus . Just as good

[Jambo85]

Thanks Hanglow, thought it might be that one but they don't have much redness to them. I'll try cutting them and see what happens.

[Jambo85]

Season's greetings cep lovers



The have been outstanding in the highlands for the last couple of weeks!

Does anyone pickle them?