Putting-Up Sheep's Head
Dehydrating
There's nothing quite like walking through the woods in the Fall searching for some mushrooms and coming across 15 or 20 pound specimens of Hen-Of-The-Woods ( Grifola frondosa ), or more likely, several 5 to 7 pounders.
The first thing that comes to mind is wow!
The second thought is trying to figure out how to get it/them back to the vehicle, especially if you were not actually searching for that species when starting out.
The third thought is how to 'put it up' for later because there is just too much to eat in a few days.
What I have been doing for years is a combination of:
1. Dehydrating using a Nesco Dehydrator and
2. Freezing the cooked portions that I do not wish to dry. It works great.
Lay out the Sheep's Head Mushrooms you plan to work on. In a separate area reserve a place for the thick parts of the mushroom that you will not be dehydrating. In the photo it is the plate at upper left.
Cut out the center area and check it out for cleanliness. For drying you want a Sheep's Head that is fresh and dirt free and NOT WET.
I like to dehydrate the caps - 'as when picked'. The end result is very good!
Look over the part you cut out of the center.
This photo shows a perfectly fresh and very clean section.
We want to continue removing clusters like this from the center of the main mushroom.
The fan-shaped caps is what we want to put in the dehydrator.
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