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Looks like a berkeley polypore. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/berkeleys-polypore.html

WOW! That is some haul. I've powdered mushrooms for a long time. Great way to preserve them. I like doing hens in the fall the best. What a concentrated flavor. Same with chants. Great for making a roux. Dehydrating chants always came back rubbery for me.

Been getting blacks the last week in Portage Co.

I agree with the vine, maybe poison ivy .

Has it come & gone? There were some that came up in early September. Been to my best woods twice in 2 weeks & nothing. It's been pretty quiet, haven't heard of guys finding them.

I found 1 hen yesterday & this morning I went to my best hen woods & only saw 1 young one. Some guys are killing them but not me, not yet. Good luck!

Try a couple & see. I heard leaving the black mess on the shells effects the flavor. But there's only one way to know. I'm still eating the ones I processed last year & the ones I'm getting now will need a few months to cure. Trees are really loaded this year.

Big walnuts,chicken, hen & a cat.

Looks like berkeley or black staining polypores . Had to be a tree there once. At first I thought hens, to bad.

Right, I know leaf fat comes from around the guts . Regular fat that comes from around muscle has bits of muscle & skin that results in the cracklings when rendered. Wouldn't that make leaf fat a purer fat ?

Great Info!

My local butcher(Buckeye Meats) has both pig fat & beef fat. They don't carry lard or tallow. The next closest ( Tierra Verde) carries lard. I wouldn't buy tallow or lard from walmart ,amazon ect. unless it was pure with nothing else added. I can buy the beef fat & make my own. When I buy the...

I haven't tried tallow. It doesn't seem to be as available as lard. Where do you get it.

I don't eat breakfast until noon-1 o'clock. Is that fasting, LOL. I don't eat past 8 in the evening & that's nuts or fruit. That's 16 hours. Just not hungry until noon.