A chara, – Thank you to Fionnuala Ward for her most interesting and beautifully written article on mushrooms (An Irishwoman’s Diary, May 27th).
I wholeheartedly agree with her praise of mushrooms as an ingredient in so many recipes.
A handful of field mushrooms included in the most simple of dishes gives that unique flavour and lifts and raises the dish from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
My earliest memory of mushrooms dates back to a small school in the west of Ireland when I was six years old and to a day when my teacher roasted some field mushrooms at lunchtime.
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We children had previously collected the mushrooms in an adjacent field.
We were each given a small morsel of toast topped with roasted mushrooms as a special treat; a small treat but a memory to last a lifetime. – Yours etc,
MARY RIGNEY,
Kilgobbin,
Dublin 18.