How To Care For Chicken Of The Woods. Then you seal the holes with melted wax so no other fungus can attack your chicken of the woods spores. Chicken of the woods is parasitic and saprobic on living and dead oaks also sometimes on the wood of other hardwoods.
Add a comment 2. 7192020 Cut up your Chicken of the Woods mushroom into half inch shanks and place a few handfuls into the soup. Mother Earth News offers Chicken of the Woods Pasta Sauce Recipe from the wonderful book Foragers Feast.
6232011 Chicken of the woods does not keep well as a dried mushroom.
Wood becomes brittle and then turns to powder. 6242018 Note that you can store chicken of the woods mushrooms in a paper bag in the refrigerator for about a week. Those growing on yews conifers or eucalyptus may absorb some of their oils which can cause serious distress. With cream chicken or vegetable stock or a white wine such as Riesling is an excellent strategy.