Mushroom Dumplings

One man’s piroshki is another man’s ravioli, is someone else’s dumpling. The recipe may be as varied as you please, but the principle remains the same: a bit of dough is patted or rolled into a shape suitable for stuffing, stuffed with whatever comes to hand, and cooked by whatever method suits the cook. The stuffing can be flesh, fowl, fish, vegetables, jam, curd cheese, buckwheat, preserves, fruit— or, as here, wild fungi, a late-summer treat. The method of cooking can be frying, b