{"id":19055,"date":"2024-12-14T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/giant-mushroom-found-in-buckinghamshire-feeds-family-for-a-week\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T08:49:56","slug":"giant-mushroom-found-in-buckinghamshire-feeds-family-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/giant-mushroom-found-in-buckinghamshire-feeds-family-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant mushroom found in Buckinghamshire feeds family for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Alissimon Minnitt found the giant mushroom while out for a walk in the Buckinghamshire countryside<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A woman who found a giant 5kg (11lb) mushroom on a country walk said the vegetable fed her family for a whole week.<\/p>\n

Alissimon Minnitt, 27, was walking with her father in a field in North Marston, near Winslow in Buckinghamshire, when they spotted the enormous fungi in the grass.<\/p>\n

“It fed my family for a week… I’ve been eating it ever since. I still have three slices left in my freezer. I’ll be honest – I’m a little bit sick of it,” she said.<\/p>\n

The musician is a keen forager with “an interest in mushrooms”, and said she knew how to identify it and not mistake it for something poisonous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family cooked the mushroom using TikTok recipes <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Ms Minnitt, from Chesham, found the fungi close to where she previously found another giant, but slightly smaller, mushroom in 2017.<\/p>\n

“A giant puffball<\/a> is the most easily recognisable ‘forageable’ mushroom,” she said. “It looks like something from another planet, they are so weird.”<\/p>\n

The amateur mycologist explained she knew what shapes and colours to avoid. Experts say people without such knowledge should not take any risks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The forager used kitchen scales to weigh the giant mushroom<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The fungi was used to cook a meatloaf and mushroom steaks – and a mushroom-based pizza.<\/p>\n

“My mum found a recipe on TikTok,” Ms Minnitt added. “We used the actual mushroom as the base for the pizza. That was nice.”<\/p>\n

The rest was sliced, put into boxes and frozen, to be used at a later date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alissimon Minnitt said she made a pizza using the mushroom as a base<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In September, three people in Jersey were poisoned after mistaking a death cap mushroom for an edible one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mycologist Charlotte Shenkin warned people not to eat wild mushrooms they could not confidently identify themselves.<\/p>\n

She said: “It’s essential to be aware of the real and potentially deadly risks of eating wild fungi without knowledge and caution.”<\/p>\n

Ms Shenkin also advised foragers to seek a second opinion and keep an uncooked sample in case they did fall ill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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