hi
I have never eaten a DL myself, but that is because I started 'collecting' DL's just last year and my flowers were too precious to eat
During the season my preference in DL flowers changed, so I now have some DL's that wil be 'sacrificed' in the kitchen this Summer
One of the nurseries in the north of my country organises a DL dinner every year
On their site it says:
"In China they call Hemerocallis fulva 'hsuan-soa', what means as much as 'the plant that makes you forget' because of it's calming effect. The young, cooked, shoots were often given to people in mourning.
Single flowers are edible, double flowers are NOT.
ALL parts of the single flowered DL's are edible. The roots taste like potato, the flowers taste like cruncy lettuce, but a bit more sweet. Every kind of flower has there own distinctive taste. Orange flowers are sweeter that red ones. Red ones are more peppery.
If you want to use the buds you should put them in boiling water for a few minutes.
Some examples: you can use the flowers to garnish you dishes, but you can also fill them with creamcheese or icecream, whipped cream and crème brûlée, or with rice and crayfish.
Our chefs have used them to make a flowery pesto and the buds in soups or with endive stalks."
Sorry if I made some mistakes translating
They don't say anything about hybrids, so I don't know about that...
And if you want more ideas: googling 'recipes daylilies' resulted in 348,000 hits
