Oronge, Cocon, Jaune d’Oeuf, Amanite des Cesars (French)

Amanita caesarea

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By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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Method

Two famous French mycologists, L. Quélet and F. Bataille, in their Flora monographique des amanites et des lépiotes, give the following recipe for this imperial fungus:

Épluchez vos oronges, sans les faire bouillir. [Perhaps in 1902 when this work appeared people were still trying to ‘make sure’ by plunging these marvels in boiling water. ‘Épluchez’ in this case means ‘car