Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!harpo!inmet!metcalf From: metcalf@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Puffballs Message-ID: <3500024@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 02:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.3500024 Posted: Mon Jan 30 02:17:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:48:37 EST References: <376@sii.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:sii:-37600:inmet:3500024:37777777600:348 Nf-From: inmet!metcalf Jan 22 23:17:00 1984 All white puffballs are good to eat (i.e. non-poisonous, but often bland) AS LONG AS the interior is white and homogeneous. If the interior has begun to turn yellow (or purple or black) DON'T EAT IT. Also, if when you cut the 'puffball' open you find a mushroom shaped outline inside DON'T EAT IT. It's probably an undeveloped amanita. -wcm