FW: Ditch lilies

Diann Barbee Thoma asked:
"Mmmmmm, thanks for the cooking tip. What kind of soup? :-)  (I'm not
kidding!)"

Thanx to good ol' google.com, here are some ideas from the web:

Cream of daylily soup (in a weblist exchange):
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/daylily/msg0223001721779.html

"Daylily: An Edible Ornamental":
http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/urban_homestead/38158

Added to soups, salads, and the pickle crock(!):
http://www.ediblewild.com/daylily.html

"Don't add too much. The taste is sweet and will overpower a salad . .
.":
http://cabarrus.ces.state.nc.us/staff/dgoforth/newsart/edible.html

Fried rice with "golden needles" (i.e., daylily buds):
http://www.tranquil-lake.com/Cooking/entrees.htm#Fried

Recipe for plantain pancakes, incorporating daylily shoots:
http://www.ediblewild.com/plantain.html

Daylily-bud saute:
http://www.ghorganics.com/page16.html

Reference to April/May 2000 issue of "Kitchen Gardener" magazine, with a
recipe for Daylily Petals with Pesto Dip on Cucumber Slices:
http://finewoodworking.com/kg/admin/toc/26.htm
(Have to find the issue in a library; can't get to the recipe online.)

Book for sale, "Out of the Earth: A Heritage Farm Coast Cookbook",
including daylily cheesecake:
http://www.spinnerpub.com/cart/shop.cgi/SID=987165337.20564/page=OutEa
rth.html

Review of a book for sale, "The Neighborhood Forager", that includes
daylily-tuber hushpuppies:
http://www.vhi.ie/topic/brforager

Book for sale, "Delightfully Delicious Daylily: Recipes and More":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/187986360X/gardencom/107-559968
2-6466913

Book for sale, "Daylily Delights":
http://members.cruzio.com/~sheryl/daylily.html

And from http://www.daylilyresearch.org/whytest.html:
"And if that's not enough, the next time you have sweet and sour soup at
your
favorite Chinese restaurant, be aware that the ingredient called "Gum
Jum" or
"Golden Needles" is actually the buds of the daylily. Practically all of
the daylily
is edible and is higher in protein and Vitamin C than most of the
vegetables in
popular use."
(One of a number of pages asserting that daylily buds are a common
ingredient of hot and sour soup)

Happy snackin'!
Nick Jones
Atlanta

-----Original Message-----
From:   Diann Barbee Thoma [SMTP:diannthoma@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent:   Friday, April 13, 2001 12:08 AM
To:     shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject:        Re: [SG] Ditch lilies

Mmmmmm, thanks for the cooking tip. What kind of soup? :-)  (I'm not
kidding!)

Diann

-----Original Message-----
From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
Bobbi Diehl
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:06 PM
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: [SG] Ditch lilies


The sad part is that there are so many people who seem to think the
orange
ditch lily is the ONLY daylily! And so many others who think that all
daylilies were created equal.

In our neighborhood, several nearby yards are adorned with a wide border
of orange daylilies which the homeowners laboriously planted several
years
ago. I presume they PURCHASED them somewhere, because the starts were all
the same size when they went in. These people had the space to grow
hundreds of interesting hemerocallis, or they could have put in a
well-rounded perennial border with all sorts of plants, and instead they
opted for a whole bunch of H. fulva! What a shame! And when they bloom,
it
is a LOT of orange! Booooorrrrrring!

Well, they are good for one thing--you can use the flower buds in soup,
and they are delicious.

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, bob wrote:

>> J.E. Shields wrote:
>>  In favorable areas it is very vigorous, much more so than the usual,
>> well-behaved hybrid daylilies.  It chokes them out.

> I am always amazed at how fast this plant has spread in the last 30 or
> 40 years. When I was a kid you could see it here and there out in the
> country but now you can usually find a patch in about every mile of
> ditch along the road. Not bad for a plant that doesn't set many if any
> seed. This is here in Iowa anyway.
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