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Mushrooms, Dry

Mushrooms prepared in this way will be found useful when fresh ones are not to be had. They are prepared precisely like powdered mushrooms (see MUSHROOMS, POWDERED), but button mushrooms and just-opened ones do best. Do not draw their juice, but place them at once in a slow oven on white thick paper. They will shrink, and lose their round appearance, but if carefully done, and not burnt, they will be found excellent for hashes, etc. They need only be put into the gravy when cold, and warmed up, to swell to nearly their original size. Keep them in brown-paper bags hung near the fire.