Dried Mushrooms Recipe

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	Mushroom picking in the Sonoma countryside was a favorite pastime of ours when we were children. Sometimes Ramona still does it, although we usually have mushrooms from Petaluma Mushroom Farm. If you are interested in learning how to pick wild mushrooms the best thing to do is take a course which teaches you how to know the deadly ones. If you have more mushrooms that you can use for the moment, you can dry them. You can not only use the dried mushrooms in the usual ways in soups, and sauces, but you can also grind the musrooms into powder and use it as thickening in sauces instead of flour for a more complex flavor in other dishes. Mushrooms
	Wash and slice mushrooms in even slices and put in the oven at 175 degrees until dry. When all moisture is gone store in a tightly closed container.