Mushroom Vol-au-Vents

In recipes like this, I use mushrooms that I have frozen from the year before. The main reason for this is that the mushrooms have to be coarsely chopped anyway for freezing. The second reason is that you can bring back to mind the wonderful flavour of summer and autumn mushrooms at any time of the year. However, you can of course use fresh or dried wild mushrooms if you prefer.

The little puff pastry containers may be bought ready-made, and are usually used in Germany and Austria f