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Title: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: Neil on January 05, 2009, 04:55:13 PM I have eaten them in Italy on several occasions and I personally love the taste of it, especially grated over game sauce. I didn't realise though that they are quite prevelant in Wales. Time to get a pig me thinks! ;D
Article below: A crop of truffles harvested by a farming couple could be one of the most significant finds in the UK for 60 years, according to an expert. About 10kg of the fungi, prized for their flavour in cooking, were found growing underground, near the Welsh border. A sample sent off to Kew Gardens for analysis has revealed the spores match the English black summer truffle. It is thought the truffles could be worth up to £3,000 on the open market. They have been identified as summer truffles - tuber aestivum - and bought as a batch from the finders. "One truffle is a huge 423 grams. "The value of this one truffle is estimated to be around £150." Roger Phillips, an international expert, examined the find, before sending a sample of the fungi to Kew Gardens to be classified, categorised and recorded. Mr Phillips said: "We have not seen truffles in this sort of quantity in the UK in last 60 years. "It is an amazing find; I am flabbergasted at how large they are. "Some of the biggest truffles were bigger than records I have heard of." The summer truffle is said to have a nutty, crisp texture and aromatic truffle flavour. The farmer believes the spores may have travelled in the dung of some Limousin cattle he imported in from France for beef stock, during a period when he was trying a number of different methods of farming on his land. The spores are not destroyed by the gut and it is thought the most common way fungi spread is in the faeces of cattle and deer. Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: Richy on January 05, 2009, 07:11:57 PM I've always fancied trying them but as some of them seem to start life up a cows bum I'm not so keen. lol. :o
Richy. Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on January 05, 2009, 07:39:58 PM lol Richy im with you in this one :-[
Neil what do they taste like ? Im betting they dont taste like chocolate truffle :P mushroomy perhaps ?? Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on January 05, 2009, 09:09:22 PM I've always fancied trying them but as some of them seem to start life up a cows bum I'm not so keen. lol. :o Richy. you eat eggs dont you richy??... ;D Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: Neil on January 06, 2009, 10:26:15 AM Hard to describe a taste Phil - you are close with mushrooms - I would say very earthy, like raw mushrooms, and a bit nutty. I have only ever had it grated on food - but it tastes lovely. Apparently the taste changes depending on when its harvested and how long its been stored. Would love to find one. The base of trees is where they are found amongst the roots, just poking through the soil.
Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: hedgehog on January 06, 2009, 11:57:18 AM I have found some white truffles in the past but they were only tiny, so I left them where they were. Looking at the value of them I think I will go back there with one of these (italian truffle hound)
Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on January 07, 2009, 12:51:42 AM Ahh right its like an earthy nutty mushroom hey!
I think id prefer to eat that Italians truffle hound lol or a tasty Truffle pig :P Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: Richy on January 12, 2009, 06:55:32 PM I've always fancied trying them but as some of them seem to start life up a cows bum I'm not so keen. lol. :o Richy. you eat eggs dont you richy??... ;D Oh my God, eggs come from a cow's bum? Title: Re: Anyone ever found a truffle? Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on January 13, 2009, 10:48:47 AM lol Richy
sooooooo funny ... i think ive pulled a muscle ;D |