From Lilies to Dillies?

We usually plant those lovely Day Lillies for the beautiful color that they add to our landscape, but pickles?????

I found an old cookbook among my grandmother's things. It has recipes for pickling just about every thing from weeds and flowers to bananas, nuts and just about anything you can imagine. How about some pickled Eel or Caviar?

That's a lot of vinegar! And if you don't have vinegar on hand, don't worry, you can even make your own vinegar.

If you would like to make your own Pickled Day Lilies, here's the recipe:

Day Lily Dillies

2 pounds day lily buds
5 hot red pepper pods
5 cloves garlic
1 quart distilled white vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon celery seed
1 tablespoon mustard seed

1. Wash and drain lily buds. Pack neatly in 5 hot, sterilized pint jars.
Put 1 pepper pod and 1 whole garlic clove in each jar.

2. Bring the remaining ingredients to a boil and pour the liquid over the lily buds.
Seal. Process 10 minutes

Makes 5 pints.

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So if you don't have enough veggies in your garden this year

turn your Lillies into Dillies!!