One of my favorite soups is 'Hot and Sour Soup'. It's on the menu in most, if not all, Chinese restaurants; even corner 'take out' joints. One of the ingredients is spent (wilted) day lily flowers. Some places don't include them but if you eat at a good quality restaurant they do. I have two excellent Chinese cook books (I'd say Asian, but they only include recipes from China) that include the flowers as traditional ingredients in this soup. I have a couple of stands of day lilies in my yard and have always collected the flowers after the bloom, dry them and save them for soups year round. They're great in good old chicken soup.
One of my favorite soups is 'Hot and Sour Soup'. It's on the menu in most, if not all, Chinese restaurants; even corner 'take out' joints. One of the ingredients is spent (wilted) day lily flowers. Some places don't include them but if you eat at a good quality restaurant they do. I have two excellent Chinese cook books (I'd say Asian, but they only include recipes from China) that include the flowers as traditional ingredients in this soup. I have a couple of stands of day lilies in my yard and have always collected the flowers after the bloom, dry them and save them for soups year round. They're great in good old chicken soup.