Cordyceps Flower, Palm Fruit & Carrot Soup

Why people make this soup

Fresh palm fruit — sold in small packs at Asian grocers — has a genuine traditional reputation for soothing phlegm and cough. Simmered with cordyceps flower, carrot, sweet almonds and red dates, it makes a clear, moistening soup. People reach for it when late nights, smoke or drink leave the throat dry and scratchy with a tickly cough, or when an allergic-type dry cough flares.