Wine Cap Mushrooms - Harvest, Propagation and Cooking

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Hildegard von Bingen's Parsley Wine For The Heart Recipe:
Ingredients:
8-10 Parsley stems (leaves + stems used)
Bottle of Red or White Wine (organic if possible)
2 TBL Wine Vinegar (or apple cider vinegar works well too)
3/4 cup Honey
Bring wine and parsley leaves to light boil. Add two tablespoons wine vinegar. Boil for five minutes. Add honey (one-third cup or less for diabetics) and return to light boil (around five minutes.) Skim off any foam, strain, and rebottle the wine.*
*Alternately, what Sasha does, is, once you have boiled the wine vinegar, to turn off the heat, stir in the honey, put a lid on, and leave the wine to steep until cooled, or overnight, then strain & bottle
This is no medical advice from us, but this wine is said to be good for the heart and Sasha is a fan:) -- from the recipe: "Take one to three tablespoons (or, a small shot glass) daily to relieve heart pain, chest tightness, and other circulatory discomfort caused by weather or excitement. Take a half a cup before bedtime for a good night’s sleep. Parsley wine is useful for pain caused by chronic rheumatic disease, as well as in cases of rehabilitation after heart attacks, and to aid in sleeplessness."
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Happy growing!

[@pokeweed10k15]

This might be a long shot but would anyone want to trade winecap spores for some heirloom seed?

[@edibleacres]

I pinned it here so you have a better chance of making that connection, hope it helps :)

[@pokeweed10k15]

@@edibleacres much thanks sir!

[@familyfungi]

Send me a message: [e-mail] I'll make a spawn bag for you and we can do some trades! Spawn (mycelium) would be easier to work with than spores.

[@kaninajames9633]

Did you ever get any? I ordered sawdust spawn from North Spore

[@gomersmith1061]

Pp

[@Ethan-vk6ny]

As a son of a chef and a permaculture enthusiast I really appreciate all aspects of this video and think this kind of all encompassing type of video should be extended to other realms of plant life

[@edibleacres]

Thanks for the kind words here.

[@johnman559]

@@edibleacres Odin tells me he's grateful for your caring attitude to the mycelium🇳🇴🐲✝️

[@erikjohnson6423]

Came for the mushrooms, stayed for the unintentional ASMR, made my morning WAY better!

[@petset77]

I especially love your respect for the fungi by spreading it around other beds and garden spaces. Thank you!

[@petset77]

....I went to your site to see if you sell rooted elderberry plants. Sold out!! I'll save your info and try another time.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Sasha, all videos on cooking are greatly appreciated!

[@helen_grace_cosplay]

I love Sasha's style of kitchen witchery :)

[@morjesusgan3]

Wow I never realized mushroom propagation was so easy! Thanks for sharing!

[@mollyfalcone4040]

Please make a video on Sasha’s bread recipe!

[@morjulies]

Yes please!

[@famulan3479]

Smell of mushroom compost is the best smell in the world for me: grounding, calming, and reassuring. Thank you for sharing knowledge.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

We inoculated this spring with spawn from North Spore, and got one flush of the wine caps in the front yard .. They caught me by surprise, and had already gone brown by the time I found them ... well, that just means even more mushrooms next season!

[@adamorlando7560]

“Go to bed or wake up” I feel like that was the mushroom talking in riddle through you lol

[@thinginground5179]

what time

[@adamrummer5342]

Finally, people who eat a reasonable amount of garlic! :D

[@edibleacres]

We try to set aside at least 400-500 heads in the fall for our winter enjoyment. We share a good number with loved ones but a LOT get eaten by the two of us :)

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

I'm with you. I'm only half-joking when I say: when I read recipes including garlic, if it says one clove I use one whole head :D

[@margiel43]

Thank you for that video. I so enjoyed watching Sasha cook. I would love to see more of her cooking and what kind of diet you guys eat. I love how you guys have such a wonderfully wise way of doing things. You inspire me ❤

[@edibleacres]

We're hoping to get a lot more videos with Sasha front and center as time goes on :)

[@margiel43]

EdibleAcres That would be wonderful :-) thanks for the reply 💕

[@fallenangelwi25]

I would love to see more recipes from you please 😊🥰😋

[@edibleacres]

More to come!

[@fallenangelwi25]

@@edibleacres awesome thank you!!!

[@dominiquedeveaux361]

"Go to bed little mushroom. :) Cap and all!" LOL These videos are so enjoyable to watch! Thank you so much for spreading the wisdom you've accumulated through the years. Cheers from New Brunswick, Canada, - Dom

[@jasiucasic]

No taste test?? Man that looked sooo good!! Haha I've always dreamed of doing exactly this.. Mushrooms are a wonderful being, they are perfect to complete the cycle of a healthy farm. Anything you or your chickens don't eat, they will gladly turn into food.

[@edibleacres]

We ate them for sure, but the video footage just seemed silly. They were delicious.

[@lourdesdoty7765]

@@edibleacres , they sure looked yummy!!!! Loved heraring about Sasha's concord heart wine!!!!

[@carlacowling1789]

OMG now I'm sooo hungry! So enjoy your humorous explanations ("very technical and precise propagation" lol) and then see the plant used to make yummy stuff. So glad Sasha is more comfortable in front of the camera and we get to see her more. Would love to know more about the wine and any tinctures she makes.

[@edibleacres]

We'll share more notes as we go!

[@3v388]

I love that mushroom stew and omelette!! Love all the garlic too. 😄

[@edibleacres]

It's so good!

[@julynbaker1718]

I love that you say thank you. Nice to see someone respect their relationship with nature.

[@edibleacres]

I try

[@melkilgore]

Beautiful! We are growing our first wine cap bed and they are just now starting to come up! Thank you for the tips!

[@SmallSeeds]

Awesome! Thanks for info & the links. Definitely want to get into growing mushrooms. Also I love how you thank the plants, animals and fungi! You and Sasha seem like two great human beings. We really appreciate your channel & videos.

[@fredroulin5215]

You're so sweet people.! Thanks a lot for all the knowledge you got and sharing with us.! Very greatfull of all your work.! Tack care

[@nymeriagloves3957]

my main garden is buried under 3 inches of straw and 3 inches of woodchips and i spread wine caps in it. definitely a good way to have no weeds and get more food from the same space.

[@edibleacres]

Sounds like a heaven for soil building.

[@TheRhnda1225]

Love the cooking show!

[@jessicahorsfall8666]

Loved this video! I’m very interested in growing wine caps and in any and all of Sasha’s tips on sourdough (I’m a newb)!

[@edibleacres]

We look forward to sharing the sourdough ideas soon enough :)

[@nickstraw1952]

My Bil and sister were avid mushroom hunters in Germany. Your video brought back memories of being with them. Then watching Sasha turn them into delicious food was another deja vue moment. They were both excellent cooks, and we went wild ith chanterelles and morelles and others I never knew the names of. And everyone should take extra care before eating what they find. In France, where mushroom hunting is even more of a family thing, the pharmacists are trained as part of their job to identify the safe ones. They stay open especially on Sundays in season. Thanks for sharing.

[@edibleacres]

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@naturallyric84]

I bought a place that had stacks of scrap marble. I made a stepping stone path with various shapes and colors. I plan on getting sawdust from a cabinet shop, sweeping it around the stones, and innoculating with Winecaps. Looking forward to spreading them through my wooded lot. I cast morel spore around some rotting oak limbs last fall and covered the spore with leaf litter. We'll see what next Spring brings. I enjoyed the video😊.

[@jimfrench1746]

I recently rediscovered the fabulous "bathtub garden giant" video you and Sasha did back in 2014 and was so happy to already have a bag of spawn already in the fridge. Thanks to your expert scientific tutorial, I now have a bin that is turning white! Thanks for everything over the years!

[@edibleacres]

Very happy to share our very high level scientific procedures with nice folks like you Jim :). ha!

[@doinacampean9132]

Mushrooms definitely go with a ton of parsley!!! And if you're into medieval recipes, look up the 4 thieves vinegar. It's vinegar infused with garlic, thyme, sage and oregano, if memory serves. Although, I'd add a bit of rosemary, too (or, the memory doesn't serve and rosemary is already in the recipe...)

[@edibleacres]

Sounds wonderful!

[@Jabberwalks]

I always love watching your videos, and now I really want an omelette. Can't wait for the fall rains and the mushroom meals that follow.

[@trumpetingangel]

After the "monsoons" of the past three weeks, my winecaps are fruiting like mad! Delicious, and so plentiful! I looked back at this video to figure out if the bases are used for propagating. Many thanks, as always!

[@edibleacres]

So glad you are getting that abundance!

[@trumpetingangel]

@@edibleacres I'm giving them away to everyone I know, dehydrating every day, made a vat of mushroom-barley soup, and burying the fat bases with mycelial drippings in other places with wood chips. My kitchen is purplish with spores! Waiting for new of offspring from your house!

[@krystynam4076]

Your channel is so wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

[@MyLearner1]

Oh, I’m so hungry for your breakfast!

[@AMonikaD]

Thanks for the links!!! I always wanted to get winecap spores!!! Yey!!

[@paulinelarson465]

I had several of those cast iron skillets ! Used them for steak, fish fillets, sausage and fried egg platters. "Lost" a few when kids moved out. Then "kids" started arguing about who borrowed who's skillet. Lucked out and found several more at a thrift store. Just gave another one to a grandson. He almost cried ! ! Love those skillets ! Think they are restaurant ware.

[@antiowarr9467]

you just have to love real life living, it strengthens the heart and relaxes the spirit... thx...

[@blancadejesus9464]

Loving your life and what you do: 👏

[@faulderrr]

The omlette looks delicious!

[@isabelladavis1363]

Thank you so much for this wonderful information truly appreciated

[@Kay-xi9kv]

You two are the best! Thanks for making the world more beautiful

[@briangrantackert1732]

this is so fun! thank you both for sharing.

[@repeatbeet6357]

i've recently been reading "hildegard's healing plants" so am delighted to see her parsley wine make an appearance! thanks muchly 4 delightful and informative videos over the years, appreciate y'all :)

[@farmerjones5479]

Wonderful. Mind the edges!!!

[@trishaplescia9234]

you guys have fun! great info thanks

[@truyennam]

excellent

[@Connor-tv5gu]

I’d love a bread video!

[@edibleacres]

Thanks for your vote on this!

[@theresageorge5796]

Love you guys so much! Been flirting with the idea of foraging - almost 50 acres here. This was just the video for me tonight as I begin to strategize my foray into the wild edible . . . xoxo

[@edibleacres]

Well hello Theresa :) Wine Cap mushrooms are so so great because you can inoculate chips right where you are! Makes the foraging trips quite the short commute :)

[@theresageorge5796]

@@edibleacres Yeah - I was admiring that - - and making some plans for my food spaces!!!

[@keithjacobson335]

Great! Enjoyed every minute.

[@edibleacres]

So glad!

[@nymbeats]

yes, we're interested in a video about the tartine method!

[@dharpbend2801]

thanks a bunch for trusted infomation

[@tith666]

Very lovely video.

[@annaaust8445]

That looked very yummy!! :)

[@DonDufresne]

You're killing me. What an incredible breakfast. :-)

[@wmo1234]

I always enjoy your videos! Thank you for what you do here.

[@ginbing123]

love this video. I also talk to my plants!

[@rsbhomevideos]

This is exactly the kind of video I was looking for on your channel judt yesterday. Perfect timing! 👌

[@edibleacres]

So glad!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Lovely stuff I’ve just got into harvesting and cooking wild mushrooms

[@edibleacres]

Good luck and be safe!

[@dominiquedery8221]

Long time fan and just have to chime in to say thank you!! We just spotted our first of these after inoculating our garden. Came up right in the nettles... So happy to learn your take on them. Yes please to a bread demo!!

[@edibleacres]

Funny that their first flush is in the hardest to get to spot! They are jokers.

[@jesidillon4593]

Loved you guys approach! Keep on!

[@haleybaird2290]

Liked this video so much, I came back and watched it again! We’ve got a gigantic pile of rotted sawdust that we inherited when we purchased our house, and I’ve never really known how to best utilize it in our gardens. I think I’ll see if some mushroom friends would like to live in it. Thanks for all of that info! Loved the cooking suggestions from Sasha, and would greatly enjoy a sourdough recipe video from her!

[@edibleacres]

Glad you found it useful! :)

[@soronos8586]

These were popping up in the food forest this year with all the mild weather in Jan!

[@learningallthetimes7655]

Any recipe (s) from Sasha will be great!

[@Strider181]

Looks like a pretty wholesome lifestyle. Bests wishes from over here in Melbourne Australia.

[@my_permaculture]

Looks sooooo delicious, the omlet in the end!

[@aron8949]

Awesome video

[@rainbowconnected]

Thank you for introducing us to these beings and continuing to share about them! They're amazing for eating and soil building! After being inspired by your videos, we introduced them last year and are finding them everywhere now. Which is extra impressive that they continued to spread in spite of the dry summer. And being dug by creatures many, many times. Do y'all ever dry or otherwise preserve them? If so, I would love to hear about that. It seems quite possible they may eventually produce more than we can eat. Which would be a wonderful "problem" to have.

[@edibleacres]

They are a little tough to dry, not like shiitake. They don't want to dry on their own, so either good airflow or dehydrator seems needed.

[@sgewirtz1]

"I might have cooked in it" "REALLY?! "

[@edibleacres]

ha! :)

[@acsoul1]

That had me giggling too

[@jacknanuq6119]

great info

[@slaplapdog]

Loved toe cooking segment!

[@forgottenforest1]

Thank you for the wine recipe. I will be making it ASAP

[@edibleacres]

Happy hearth health to yoU!

[@zacharyswain7034]

That looks good

[@fallenangelwi25]

I absolutely love mushrooms and my better half can't stand them. The funny thing is I have gotten him into mushroom hunting 😁😂 he actually enjoys it

[@carolschedler3832]

Thank you!! 🍄🍄🍄🍄

[@edibleacres]

You are so welcome!

[@whereisangie]

great video! im making a winecap bed at my new house! so excited😍

[@edibleacres]

Good luck!!

[@trollforge]

Hmm, I may have to try this wine recipe.

[@nymbeats]

I've been liking to add garlic late in the saute lately too.

[@christopherklene1411]

Awesome!!!!!!

[@panoskar8952]

Ι suggest making a video section or individual videos with Ms Shasha 's cooking and crafting skills.

[@edibleacres]

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[@RagbagMcShag]

thats a healthy amount of garlic :D

[@jennifermansfield9327]

Love the "I might have cooked with it... and "Really?' - I "planted" wine cap spore from a place in ME called Northspore.... hoping for good results in the coming years!

[@edibleacres]

Good luck!

[@wildedibles819]

Great video my friend planted the spawn last year and shes been patiently waiting lol :) I will Tell them to watch your new video here they can't wait to watch more videos about these mushrooms You did great explaining the details of this mushroom Maybe you can show a spore print later on when you have time but you did great explaining the color of the spores and how they change with age Great job and great cooking too loved the togetherness :) Much love xoxox thanks

[@kicknadeadcat]

I started out with a block from field and forest cultured a piece of the biggest one that grew to a Petri dish then dropped a piece from petri in some liquid culture. Now I grow a new blocks every year. Pounds and pounds of wine caps…..

[@porkcheeks]

They are awesome if not overwhelming. I loosely tracked our harvest as 15-20kg this year. I’m looking to diversify the wood chip varieties for next year while keeping these going. 4b/5a The slugs and fly larvae are hard to beat but we don’t fuss too much over it

[@edibleacres]

There are so many mushrooms coming that who cares if other small creatures have some fun too! We'll never eat them all anyway.

[@Garysopinion]

Like the wine caps just because they are easy to grow and ID. Unless we find them young don't eat them because of the black spores. Maybe OK for black bean soup. Trying broadcasting epsom salt around where they grow for slugs. just trying it. Used to growing them in new chips for less competition but looks like they need to be in an older chip mix. you have a lot of good ideas. seems like much of the old garden ways are lost. Also believe in UV exposure to all my mushrooms for the vit D. THANKS

[@aron8949]

I love garlic

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

Hehe, lovely!

[@theallotmentkitchengarden3694]

Gorgeous mushrooms! 😍 I tried planting some inoculated winecap “plugs” this spring in several spots of my young food forest, but we had a super dry spring AND summer, so no sign of any mushrooms yet and I wonder if I need to start again...❤️🍄🤞

[@edibleacres]

Keep an eye out, they sometimes take a year to get established. One trick I use is to transplant seedlings where I know I've also put wine cap, so that there is a good reason to water that patch, and the shade of the mustard, or tomato, or whoever can help protect the wine caps.

[@theallotmentkitchengarden3694]

EdibleAcres thank you very much for the hope and the watering tip, I will definitely try that! ❤️

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@theallotmentkitchengarden3694 I just read an article by a person who grows their winecaps right in their strawberry beds. Both of them like the mulch and as Sean said above, you won't forget to keep them watered. Seems like putting winecaps under fruit trees is very popular as well, for the same reasons. I've also read that the winecaps may not have the same color if they get a lot of sun but they'll still grow well and be just as tasty. We just ordered some plugs for some other mushrooms and spawn for winecaps so I'm all excited about it lol.

[@Lochness19]

Just had a couple winecaps pop up, from the mushroom bed I set up in late April. I was pretty surprised considering it's mid-July and we've been in a drought here in the Toronto area. But to be honest, it's been fairly cool, with highs mostly around 70-75F so far this summer.

[@edibleacres]

That is amazing!

[@barrypetejr5655]

Hmmmm YUMMY !!!! It's ok Sasha....thats my way of cooking...what ever is around...toss it in....always works for me......ok Sean think I've got it....the ones i text u about sprouted and looked like urs that had been there to long......the ones sprouting are definitely wine cap mushrooms. Whenever I am in the small local grocery store I always pass by their (out of date) bread rack......luv pumpernickel and the !!!!! Out of date bread is popular at my house...lots of things to do with it !!!!!😊

[@StillSwirling]

Yum!

[@adreanjelliff13]

Rose petal salt hmm I like it

[@jeffskinner1226]

I've never tried eating Wine cap's but I have had Porcini (cepes) and they are incredibly delicious. Not sure how to grow them or even if it's possible in the North American eastern woodlands, but if it is they'd be worth it.

[@erikjohnson9223]

They are mycorhizal, so inoculation is more difficult. Theoretically if you have the host tree, you could wash spores into the roots.

[@jeremiahcroswhite2333]

Haha I have the same omelet and pan I got it at a goodwill also! My friend told me I'd regret it if I didn't nab it and 6 years later he was right, that thing rocks.

[@edibleacres]

:)

[@macgyver5108]

9:20 "Butterfingers!" 😅

[@meralkarasulu4191]

Yes pls to the sourdough bread!

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Roughly equal weight of garlic and mushrooms... random herbs that were on the counter... I like the way you think :)

[@rufia75]

We grow these in Canada in backyard gardens, as cold as zone 3 (maybe colder too?)

[@sairuhtonin]

I'd love to see a sourdough video. Also curious about the jam at the very end--what part of the bee balm (flower or leaves/ leaf tea) did you use and about how much/ how big was the batch? It sounds like an awesome flavor combo and I hope I remember it for next year.

[@edibleacres]

Sasha folds in so many amazing flavors into her preserves. We're looking forward to sharing more content with her ideas and experiences. The sourdough videos are on the to-do list for sure. I believe she uses both flower and leaf of bee balm. Monarda Didyma specifically.

[@jessicahorsfall8666]

I totally missed that she used bee balm in this! I would love to hear more about this too!

[@peterellis5626]

Our winecaps started flushing this fall after spring inoculation. Slugs aren't a problem on ours, but the Chipmunks! Oh boy!. Also, there's some sort of very tiny insect that gets into the gills of our shiitake and also some of our winecaps. We got a vegetable brush for cleaning off our 'shrooms. I've noticed that when the winecaps get wet they get slimy :( In the spring I inoculated three locations and so far this fall two of the three have produced, and a fourth spot where I did not inoculate - has produced multiple mushrooms.

[@edibleacres]

There are definitely lots of other friends interested in the wine caps, but luckily they tend to make enough of themselves to work it all out in the end.

[@garethbeaton8414]

Id love sume