French Mushroom and Chicken Soup Recipe
A detailed kitchen note outlines making French mushroom and chicken soup using stewing chicken, white wine, onions, herbs, flour, mushrooms, peas, and an egg yolk cream finish. Steps include simmering stock, thickening with a flour slurry, browning mushrooms, combining components, and finishing with a cream temper and a non boiling heat. Makes about 11 portions.
Mushrooms Season Delayed by Cold Wet Spring
The mushroom season will start later due to chilly damp weather says Linn County Extension associate Gene Rosenboom. Morels are favored by hunters but a false morel exists. a brochure from the extension service can help distinguish edibles. Mushrooms are low in calories and rich in vitamins. store mushrooms should be dried not washed and can be frozen with lemon juice to prevent darkening.
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Cindy Cullen Chapman
Gene Rosenboom
Linn County Extension
Rosenboom
Mushroom Institute
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Susan Athoff
County Extension Office
Athoff
Specialty farms grow via cottage industry in New York
Morse Pitts and sister Kathi operate a moonlit half-acre crop in Montgomery Orange County as part of a rising cottage industry of small scale farmers selling high quality produce to New York City restaurants and shops. The couple left unrelated careers, seeking fresh local foods and a less chemical method of cultivation while joining others like quail farmers and fiddlehead gatherers in a trend toward specialty products.
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Bryan Miller
New York Times
York
Morse Pitts
Orange County
N.Y
Washington Irving
Sleepy Hollow
New York City
Pitts
New Jersey
Maine
Connecticut
New York State
Vermont
New York
Kathi
Farmers Turn From Rock to Garden and Free Range Chickens
The piece profiles Frank Pollock changing from FTC press work to a small farm growing herbs and vegetables without herbicides and offering rare items. It also follows Paul Keyser who, after breeding free ranging chickens, supplies New York restaurants with European Lakenvelders and Mottled Houdans, selling about 2,500 birds this year at higher prices but facing costs and seasonal limits.
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Pitts
Stony Soil
Frank Pollock
Federal Trade Commission
Washington
Norman Rockwell
Kinkleton, Penn
Nadine
Pollock
Paul Keyser
Warwick
N.Y
Orange County
New York
Keyser
Dr. Keyser
Larry Forgione
River Cafe
Brooklyn
Larry
France
The
Manhattan
Frank Perdue
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