Ideas:

  • Toss the flowers into miso at the last minute.
  • Dry the flowers to make a tea. Could the leaves be oxidized as well?
  • Create a flower salt or sugar by drying and blending them.
  • Infuse the flowers into an oil.
  • Cold infuse the flowers in soy sauce, then strain.
  • Could the flowers be smoked and then dried?
  • Make a cheong.
  • Steep the flowers in vinegar to make an infusion.
  • Pickle the flower buds to make capers.
  • Compress the flowers by vacuum sealing them with a syrup and then freezing.
  • Use the flowers to make an amazake.
  • Salt-cure the flowers and then preserve them in oil.

Preparations:

  1. Flower Koji
    • 59g flowers
    • 2g leaves
    • 2g koji