Name: Mushrooms Dried
Ingredients: fresh mushrooms; slightly salted water; Manilla paper

Mushrooms Dried

Ingredients

fresh mushrooms
slightly salted water
Manilla paper

Directions

Clean the mushrooms and wash them in slightly salted water.
Drain the mushrooms on a clean cloth.
Place a thick sheet of Manilla paper on a baking sheet and lay the mushrooms on it.
Dry the mushrooms in the sun or cover with paper and set on the shelf of the range until perfectly dry.
Store the dried mushrooms in a tin can, covering it as air-tight as possible, and keep in a cool place.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.