The simple process of browning in butter or oil in the frying-pan, with the addition of pepper and salt, and serving hot on buttered toast or with fried eggs, will be found a most palatable method of treating this fungus. For those who are willing to sacrifice the characteristic _fungus_ flavor to a savor more pronounced, the Clavaria is also said to be delicious when fried with onions or with curry in the usual method.