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:
- Flower Koji
- 59g flowers
- 2g leaves
- 2g koji