sorry but FRESH PICKED, CLEANED and cut up and fried, throw in some scrambled egges, and YOU DONT EVEN NEED BACON the shrooms are like meat))))) my dad an i used pick different shrooms year round in pa. spring it was morels or as the italian people called em SPONG- GOLLIE. and every one had their "secret spot." in the summer we picked puff balls and field shrooms, these are like the ones you buy, these grow like crazy in cow pastures. in the fall we would get what we called "SHEEPSHEAD" and i think books list em as hen of the woods. we got one 1 year was so big we had to split it in half to haul it home. we had a 1956 mercury then and, it fill the back seat and the truck. we took it to a store near us and weighed it on their scales was 67 POUNDS!!!!! my mother caned em with hot peppers for 3 day))))