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It’s a few years since I tasted a real truffle, sliced and folded into a plate of pasta. I suppose they are an acquired taste, but I have to admit that its delicate flavour immediately appealed to me.
The subject arises this morning from the news that Prince Philip has been trying to cultivate a truffle plantation, a truffiere, at Sandringham. Having planted some appropriate saplings impregnated with the spores of the fungi, nothing happened. So he is bringing in some experts from Acqualagna in Italy to help hi. They will look at the soil, check its alkalinity and generally advise.
Perhaps the Prince should contact a primary school in Perth, where the pupils have dug up what was thought to be a Scottish summer truffle in their vegetable patch. However, an expert has said that the 250 gm fungi is not a variety he had ever seen before in Scotland. Notwithstanding, if edible, this truffle could be worth many hundreds of pounds.
Depending upon their quality, white truffles can fetch around €10,000 a kilo, while the black truffle can fetch around €3,490 a kilo.
Ollie and Mickey are always snuffling around in the undergrowth in our local woods. I wonder if they could snuffle me out a few truffles?
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It’s a few years since I tasted a real truffle, sliced and folded into a plate of pasta. I suppose they are an acquired taste, but I have to admit that its delicate flavour immediately appealed to me.
The subject arises this morning from the news that Prince Philip has been trying to cultivate a truffle plantation, a truffiere, at Sandringham. Having planted some appropriate saplings impregnated with the spores of the fungi, nothing happened. So he is bringing in some experts from Acqualagna in Italy to help hi. They will look at the soil, check its alkalinity and generally advise.
Perhaps the Prince should contact a primary school in Perth, where the pupils have dug up what was thought to be a Scottish summer truffle in their vegetable patch. However, an expert has said that the 250 gm fungi is not a variety he had ever seen before in Scotland. Notwithstanding, if edible, this truffle could be worth many hundreds of pounds.
Depending upon their quality, white truffles can fetch around €10,000 a kilo, while the black truffle can fetch around €3,490 a kilo.
Ollie and Mickey are always snuffling around in the undergrowth in our local woods. I wonder if they could snuffle me out a few truffles?
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No doubt Prince Phil is preparing for the tough times ahead by cultivating a truffle plantation to make an extra bob or two for the royal purse.
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