Mushrooms
Milk Caps
I see the saffron milk cap in the pine forest, and I wish there were more of them. Its distinct orange color lights up, it is compact, and as a rule it is quite easy to identify.
Find it in nature
Pine forest, spruce plantations and beech forest – along forest paths and in smaller groups
Nordjylland
Rold Skov
Pine forests with delicious milk cap
Vestjylland
Klitplantagerne · Hovborg Plantage
Spruce plantations along roads with saffron milk cap
Østjylland
Silkeborg-skovene
Pine and spruce with several species of milk cap
Recipes with Milk Caps
Salted olive-brown or white-felted milk cap
The pungent milk caps are not something people eat much in Denmark. Here I have used one of them, primarily because of the mushroom's other name; manddråbe.
Oak milk cap Spanish style
In Spain, the spruce milk cap and the saffron milk cap are valued, and there I've had a simple sauté with garlic and parsley several times. It is something I've brought home.
The Mushroom Handbook
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Hooded Morel
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Chanterelle
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