Minsk resident collected mushrooms in the forest resembling famous cookies. Are they edible?
In a forest right in Minsk, a woman found several unusually shaped mushrooms, collected them, and cooked a dish with them in a sour cream sauce. The woman shared this on her Threads page, writes Blizko.by.

In the comments, users compared the mushroom to a "basket" cookie with red filling and expressed concern that such beautiful-looking mushrooms are rarely edible. However, according to the author, nothing happened to her after consuming the unusual forest finds.


The charming mushrooms are called Sarcoscypha austriaca or "scarlet elf cup". The mushroom grows in forests and parks of the temperate zone of Europe and North America on humus-rich soil, moss, rotten wood, decaying leaves, or root rot. Fruiting bodies appear in early spring immediately after the snow melts.

Sarcoscypha belongs to edible mushrooms, though of low quality. Its flesh is cartilaginous and somewhat firm. Before cooking, the mushrooms must be boiled in salted water.
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