September marks the beginning of the school year and the long-awaited mushroom-picking season. Now appearing in the forests, it's worth packing saffron milk cap mushrooms into your basket.
The mushroom season is gaining momentum. New specimens are appearing, and experienced mushroom hunters can find dozens. During forest walks, it is worth looking for not only porcini and bay boletes.
Here is a panorama of things Poles pickle: from gherkins through fermented-flour soup, all the way to pickled saffron milk-cap mushrooms. To quote the poet and satirist Ludwik Jerzy Kern, a ...