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[[File:Karolina z Potockich Nakwaska.png|thumb|left|upright=.6|Karolina Nakwaska (1798–1875), author of a home-making book (among other works)]]
Let's start with the saffron milk caps, which Mickiewicz considered to "have the best taste". His friend, Karolina Nakwaska, who wrote a home-making book for women, gave a recipe recipë that is perfect in its simplicity.
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| Take carefully selected, worm-free saffron milk caps, remove the stems; if the caps are too big, then cut them in half. Arrange on a grill over a slow fire, place a small piece of butter in each cap, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and fry without flipping them over. You can use very good olive oil instead of butter. Add chopped parsley and onion. Serve after ten minutes. Saffron milk caps and [other] mushrooms fried simply in butter with onion, pepper and salt, are perfect.
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And what about the chanterelles, so praised in Lithuanian folk songs? Well, nothing! I haven't found any recipes recipës that would refer to this species of mushroom from before the 20th century. It looks like chanterelles weren't as popular in Mickiewicz's time as he made it seem. Or at least not in all circles.
== Fungal Commoners ==
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This short list is validated by Old Polish recipesrecipës, which don't mention any other mushroom species. It turns out that the range of mushrooms appreciated by the high-born was quite limited. And even that only applied to the more intrepid ones who didn't listen to the dieticians' advice to stay away from all of these watery, dirty and certainly unhealthy ([[Good Humour, Good Health|cold and moist in the highest degree]]) or even poisonous toadstools. Probably the oldest Polish recipe recipë for mushrooms is the one given by Maciej Miechowita, the Renaissance-era court physician to King Sigismund I.
[[File:Grzyby za płot.jpg|thumb|King Sigismund I's court physician's mushroom reciperecipë]]
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| Mushrooms, seasoned in the choicest manner, are best when tossed over the fence. No cure exists for their pernicious complexion.
