found these specimen today, on ground near a rotten wood stack and on the wood in central arkansas color light brown size: about 1 inch or smaller when sliced solid white good smell are these edible puffballs? would be great, because there are plenty right now
Yes, but you have to be 100% sure on the identification of every single one. I'd recommend that you cook a few up and see if you like them before harvesting tons of them.
Probably. When I suggested being 100% sure of the ID, I just meant to make sure that each individual one is indeed a puffball. I personally have never dried them - let me know how that goes. Generally speaking, you can substitute them for tofu in any dish.
thanks mycorob, they are indeed lycoperdon pyriforme we fried some last night, with butter and seasoned with pepper and salt, for us they tasted as good as the champions you buy in the store it will be some time, till I can report back how well they dry and then taste I will start out air drying them since I do not have a dehydrator in the meantime I browsed the web - I have some sliced mushrooms at lowest temperature in oven for drying another third was sliced too, browned with butter in a skillet, after cooling period, stored in freezer for later use the last third is getting air dried to see what method will give the best result
I"ve not had great luck drying puffballs......BUT! A great way to fry? Mix eggs/milk/parmesean with a dash of salt...fry slowly in olive oil. TASTY!
