Are these edible?

[ginger ninger]

Capsid..bad Joke, Norty step streight away, no tea for you.

[Hilary B]

There is some expert who reckons that there are about a dozen easily-recognised safe species, and best to avoid anything else unless you can get instruction from an expert. I would tend to agree.
There are 2 other mushrooms that can readily be confused with a Horse mushroom, one fairly toxic, and one that is edible, but more people are allergic to it than most. The way to tell them apart is to cut the flesh and see what happens. If it 'blushes' it may well be the allergy one, if it goes bright yellow it may be the poisonous one.

You can dry mushrooms in a warm oven (I used to put them in after dishing up a roast, the oven had started to cool, but was still going to take a while to be cold). 5 mins after switching the oven OFF (or switch off and leave door open while doing the following), take the shelf out of the oven, cover with paper towel, spread the mushrooms out, gill-side up. Put the shelf back in the oven and close the door, leave until oven is really cold. If they aren't completely dry to touch, remove paper and mushrooms to airing cupboard or similar warm place. If they are 'leathery dry' at this stage, you can keep them safe and repeat drying process next time you've been using the oven (if it is within about 2 days). They don't need to be crumbly-dry, but once dried, store in an airtight container and don't try to keep them too long.

[pdblake]

They look like mushrooms to me. Brown or black gills are mushrooms. If they are very pale or white then leave alone unless you know for certain.

[Hilary B]

When I lived in Orkney we had several edible species around.
St George's Mushrooms
Shaggy inkcaps
Giant puffball
Parasol
'fairy ring'
Horse mushrooms
and a variety known as "the Prince"
All except the last readily available (in season) without going off the farm (the Prince grew in an old haystack belonging to a neighbour)

[ohbeary]

Yeah! these beauties look like Agaricus Campestris, the field mushroom, pity you didnt show a cap, could have been Lepiota procera, Parasol, or Lepiota rhacodes, shaggy parasol, but the pink/brown gills say field shroom, parasols tend to be white!!, what you want to find is Boletus Edulis!! the "cep" a wonderful peppery shroom, great with steaks or on grilled cheese!!.,H.