Mr. Aron's class along with Ms. Liz's class took a morning field trip out to the base of Little Devil's Stairs to go mushroom hunting.
It was a cool and cloudy morning in early April. We were prepared with lessons on fungi, a long talk on the dangers of mushrooms, bags for our morels, and hiking boots. We were determined to collect some edible mushrooms that early spring morning.
After about five minutes of searching Mr. Aron found the first morel, a small white morel, hidden among decaying leaves in moist soil. Later Ms. Liz and class found a little patch of black morels. All in all we found around nine morels that morning before heading back to Hearthstone School.
When we returned to school that morning Ms. Liz took the mushrooms to the Lower School kitchen and soaked the morels in salt water for a couple hours, so that the bugs and dirt would fall from the little honey-comb shaped mushrooms. Then she rinsed them and stored them in a paper towel in the refrigerator until we were to cook and eat them.
The next day for morning snack we went to the Lower School kitchen to cook the morels. First we cut the morels in half long ways, next we put them in a pan with a little butter and Spike, and last but not least we all immensely enjoyed a very yummy snack.
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