Elevated risk
Sun-dried mushrooms
Sun-dried mushrooms are mushrooms spread in open sunlight and left to lose their water to solar heat and moving air, a method recorded in Nigeria, Tanzania, Mexico and among Algerian desert truffle gatherers.
Tanzania
Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.
Tanzania
Elevated risk
Smoke-dried mushrooms over a hearth
Hearth-dried mushrooms are dried on shelves above a cooking fire, so heat and smoke reach them. Tanzanian records describe the method; a Vietnamese study tested smoke-dried shiitake for fuel-dependent contaminants.
High risk
Salted Mushrooms
Salted mushrooms are a traditional wild-mushroom preserve, especially of Finnish and Russian milk caps, made by layering boiled mushrooms with coarse salt or keeping them under brine, and kept cold.
Mbege
Chagga beer from the slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, made by combining a fermented banana porridge with a sweet porridge of germinated finger millet and drunk fresh within a day or two.
Elevated risk
Morogoro maize-and-sorghum togwa
A Tanzanian cereal drink of cooked maize and sorghum flour thinned by sorghum-malt enzymes, soured by lactic acid bacteria and often started with a little of the previous batch.