Musky truffle ✦

Truffe musquée

What it is

Brumale means of winter, and it shares the black truffle's season, its soils and often its own plantation — which is the problem, since it colonises melanosporum ground and leaves with the crop. The cut face gives it away: broad white veins, widely spaced, where melanosporum runs fine and dense.

In the kitchen

Its musk turns harsh under long heat, so keep it out of the roasting tin: chop it fine into a farce or a butter, and use a third of what you would use of melanosporum.

Goes with

Butter Egg Potato Foie gras Cream Pork Salt

Same species

Bagnoli truffle Bianchetto truffle Burgundy truffle Chinese truffle Oregon white truffle Pecan truffle

In season alongside

Smooth black truffle Bay bolete Woodcock Black morel Burdock root Cabbage

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