Stuffed Mushrooms

Fairy ring mushrooms, morels, truffles and fungi of all kinds were enormously popular in the seventeenth century. Louis XIII loved them so much that as he lay on his deathbed he insisted on stringing morels to dry for the summer. A bard is a thin sheet of pork fat.

Choose the largest mushrooms to hold the stuffing, which you will make of several meats or good herbs, so that it is delicate, and bind it with egg yolks, then your mushrooms being stuffed and seasoned, set them on