Romania Truffles

Romania Truffles

         What are truffles?
     Truffles are fungi that have an outer rind called peridiod and a core called gleba. Like many mushrooms, truffles are living in symbiosis with trees, feeding it with the remove them by the roots, giving them in exchange for water and mineral salts of which they need, at the root of the trees: beech, lime, maple, Hazel, etc.

Truffles are considered delicacies in the great kitchens of Europe (France, Italy,SUA ,Germany,etc.), in Italy there and a Fellowship of the truffles.

        Where truffles grow in Romania
In the counties of Brasov, Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş, Cluj, Bistriţa, ...
Truffles are edible mushrooms that grow in the mountain areas and Hill on the root of the trees, nests, such as potatoes.

                        Truffle species in Romania

  Tuber Magnatum Pico

Intense and has a cream color-Brown at

exterior and Brown interior.

Location: the land of motherland is Italy and Croatia but we managed to identify and in Romania in the Woods

old oak, Birch and maple trees.

Period: from October to December

Note: This kind of truffle is called by those demanding and Queen of truffles.     Michael Tuber Aestivum

Summer truffle

Has irregular shape on the outside of the color

Brown to black, and the interior is studded

ribbed, white-grey or yellowish-white

Place: Almost throughout Europe make micoriză root, carpănului, oak and lime alunului River.

Period: from May to September

Note: the Image is taken up in mid-September is called aestivum and harvested later

call uncinatum.     Tuber Uncinatum

Round shape, smell more deeply, dark on the outside, and inside, dark brown-reddish or chocolate with

marble look

Place: correspond to the places where you can find trfufa, carpăn, oak forests.

Likes rich in limestone soils.

Period: from September to December

Remarks:-by bucking the color difference between the Tuber Aestivum and Uncinatum    Michael Tuber Brumale

Winter truffle

Size is smaller than the other truffles with the scent of musk, outside the shiny dark brown or black-blue. Inside the fleshy-looking marble, albiciosă Windows or dull-gray

Place: Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, France, Italy

Period: from December to March

Oservaţie: Prefer the same places as tuber aestivum

                                    

      Tuber Macrosporum

The big nose

Place: Romania, Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia

Period: from October to December

Note: is a more rare because it is a nose more demanding.

                                    

        Tuber Mesentericum

The layout is very similar to aestivum, but is more smooth.

Has the mărmuros layout, first white then yellowish-brownish. It has a pungent smell of tar.

Place: Romania, Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Croatia

Period: from September to December

Note: a specific smell emanates from tar and for this reason is not a variety so sought.                            

      Choiromyces Meandriformis Michael

      Truffle porcească

Having a strong consistency keeps flavor and after drying. Can reach the weight of 20-250 g. It is easier to find because very often comes out of the ground and it is not necessary to search with dogs.

Place: Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Germany, Austria

Period: from June to November

Note: is a specific variety of Carpathian Basin nose. At the beginning of the century there were families who were harvesting and selling of truffles.

                                        

                       CULINARY AND THERAPEUTIC QUALITIES

       Truffles reach maturity at different times of the year, some in the summer and winter ones. The citoplasmei mycelium is acumlează different organic substances which give the taste and smell peculiar to each species of truffles. Research has shown the existence of bacteria which more particularly well in these truffles and they are responsible for particular flavor, created some volatile alcohols (butanol, propanolol, methanol etc.) your own truffles.

Truffles are famous for their culinary qualities, and their chemical composition has been reconsidered in terms of prevention and treatment. They intevin in the balancing of liver dysfunction, cardioprotector and stimulating role, reduce cholesterol and serum lipids, etc. Here's the reason that over time have been and are particularly valuable cosiderate, being called Black diamonds. 

                            Truffles Black diamonds.

   Truffles are particularly appreciated in gastronomy, one of them is preparing fine delicacies, as it presents a variety of flavors, which, combined with craftsmanship, creates an unparalleled culinary harmony. 

                            GENUINE DIAMOND TRUFFLES

    Nose is definitely one of the most valuable treasures. The mystery of the origin of pleasure will bring together writers and fantasies. All other vegetables are considered the daughters of the Earth and of light, but the nose dark creature, is considered to be held hostage to the shadows.

No leaves, branches or the trunk or roots. Is born and grows close to the root of the trees, a perfect symbiosis with poplars, lime, willow, hornbeam. Prefer the bedrock, stony, well drained and alkaline.

The maximum period of civilization in Mesopotamia (3000 BC) the Babylonians were sumptuous banquets in honor of the nose. Nose was so popular in the past, that Pliny the Ancient considered a gift of heaven.

The peak it reached in the peroada Renaissance, creating a kind of psychological addiction Lords who could not accept a feast without the delicious mushroom. Umberto Eco said it and him in the novel: In the name of the rose.

The size of a potato, reddish brown, dark-skinned with white truffle is identified with the help of dogs and pigs, gilts after service in particular. These are raised naturally, because the truffle fungi emit a steroid similar to a pheromone odor produced by boars during pre-imperecherii.

Pigs and dogs feel truffle even from a distance of 100 meters. Scent may be charged and the man from a distance of 50 meters. When a student enters a room with a small amount of truffles, enough to fill a slap, their odor spread throughout the room.

The role of the aphrodisiac in humans is not yet fully understood. It was found that women are attracted to a substance contains nose: Alpha Androstenol. A doctor has tested this substance pulverizand seats in a waiting room and found that the ladies came to settle on those places.

Miasma fructata gives a sweet and refined taste. It is rich in protein and minerals, salts, organic acids, fats, carbohydrates and cellulose. Nutritional value is much higher than that of any plants or fungi surface, which are more watery and less tasty. Autumn is the nose, the most expensive, and from December to March, black truffle scent or intense, pungent, penetrating becomes Queen of forests.

A kilo of black truffles can cost between 70-100 euros depending on the season. White truffles are very rare to even 500 cost eurokg.

Truffles can keep you in fresh a week or is stored in the jars after they were cooked a few hours in water with salt.

Trufa medicinal properties, in the past has been used as an antibiotic in the form of syrup to treat any type of pain.

Dishes based on truffles have their origins in Croatia, Istria peninsula, but have been popularized in Italy under the name of Truffles.The ages were created all sorts of products with the ingredient: truffle olive oil with black truffle, butter, honey, etc.It is successfully used in cosmetics and in the preparation of anti-aging creams.