My oldest brothers second wife use to collect and cook up those puffballs, I was skeptical the first time she made them......didn't see her die off from eating them so the next time she made them I tried one.....then another one. Yep they are good. Morel mushrooms weren't as common in the UP as they are down here in the lower but there were fair numbers of a mushroom we called a "beefsteak"

Brothers second wife didn't stick around too long and divorced my brother after a few years.....she was awarded a sum of $$$ on what she might inherit one day, which is funny since that was 40 years ago and my dad is still alive so my brother hasn't inherited anything yet. I heard she used the money to buy some damm horse, I'm sure the horse has died.