Pickled Grayling Mushrooms

I spend a lot of my free time picking mushrooms, and of all the mushrooms I collect and eat, graylings are the most unusual: They are tiny, the caps are rarely bigger than a dime, they grow only in haircap moss, and they emerge just days before autumn’s first frost. I find them beautiful, tasty, and emotionally stirring. Cropping up in groups against the moss’s vivid green, their blue-gray, nippled caps are distinctive. Their very long stems stain red when handled, and their gill symmetry i