The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-09-20
Some Ways with aenns.

1t is only since modern science has
come to tho rescue OF puzzled house
keepers, and tables OF food values
been mnde up after long aud careful
chemical and cti.nf experiments. tina,
the bean has taken its true place.
From the beginning of history it has
formed a part of the food supply, car.
ried often as an exotic by wandering
and invading tribes, and rejected
often at points where it would havt
been most useful. The English TO,
example, choose to consider the eating
of dried beans as n French notion no,
to be tolerated, md exported li,eil
supply MS food for slaves While slavery
still lasted, and even to-day, one dis,
covers in rural England, that the
prejudice still fingers. On the Conli-
neut and indeed in many portions of
Asia and Africa they are u staple, and
in tho United States no less, though 10
the South they ate simply stewed, the
baked bean Of New England being al
most unknown.
There is n calculation still extant,
made by a famous Boston divine, OF
the number of bushels OF baked beans
he hau preached to duriug a p~astorate
of some thirty years, and the dish
loses none of its popularity as time
goes on. 1t has a scientific basis too;
lis combination of pork and n little
molasses, being an Observation-Disclosures
of precisely the elements required to
give the utmost nutrition. The bean
is rich liz nitrogen-a understanding
factor; the pork added tho necessary
heat-prod!cing clement, essential for
the worker in a cold climate, and the
molasses corrected Il certain acrid
quality aud made them more digesti-
Bile. Long cooking, which is essential
for beans in any form, reduce the
tough skins to something manageable.
For the hard worker they are no OBJ
lection. With those who take little
exercise they often ~digagree, and for
this reason may better be removed
for soups or purces, by rubbing through
u sieve.
Dried beans of all sorts, require SIM
ply q dry, cool place for their PERFECT
keeping. In choosing varieties for
family use, dark ones like the speckled
cranberry or the turtle-bean are richer
i'll flavor and make the best soup
or PURGE, while the lighter ones are
Host delicate for stewing. For bak-
ing, any ordinary dried bean can be
used. but tho preference is generally
for the smallest white cranberry bean.
Dried Limas or butter-beans are the
choicest for general table use. the
latter being favorite bean in both
France and Spain as well as in Mexico.
For every rule in every country the
essential i'll preparing beans for the ia.
bic, is, long, slow cooking, and where
this is secured the best qualities of this
Indispensable vegetable are ompha.
sized, and the most sensitive stomach
fluids them Il wholesome and appetite
ing food. Where they are freely used
the quantity Of meat eaten may we'll
be lessened, as tho bean abounds in
matchmaking material, and at the
same time has no over-stimulant for
the nerves which Americans own in
undue proportion, and which need
various alterations in our present
dietary. The Pythagoreans,i were Z
wiser people than they are held to be,
and the application of some of their
laws of food would mean purer blood,
clearer heads, and a dismission OF the
doctors. Their faith in beans had
good foundation, and it is anoth..
tribute 10 tho Pilgrim mothers. that
they dropped their English prejudices.
discovered the proper combination
and placed beans in the front rank e
vegetables most serviceable to man.
Good Housekeeping.