Trotters cooked slowly with onions and carrots.
"Blue foot." Wood blewit. A bright lilac blue mushroom with fresh clean flavour and excellent with potatoes.
"Horse's foot." A large flat oyster with a coarse, heavy shell which sometimes masquerades as a native, once called scuttle mouths (in France pieds de cheval) both accurately descriptive terms. These are aged ‘wild’ native oysters which have grown unattended on natural beds, unlike the refined managed natives which will have been moved to estuarine waters for fattening. Oyster beds are made and managed.
Hen of the woods or maitake mushroom. A frilled fungus with many caps that grows on trees and which is edible when it is very young.
"White sheep's foot." Hedgehog fungus. Cream-coloured mushrooms, excellent to eat, easily found in woods from late summer to late autumn (US: fall). They have a sort of downy white stem leading up to a cap which is centrally depressed and under which are masses of little spines, giving the mushroom its English name. It is quite a good mushroom to collect as it is easily distinguished from other mushrooms, is a relative of the chanterelle, and, like it, has good flavour and good retention of texture on long cooking.
