The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-27
soy BEANS FOR FOOD
Good Ammunition to Combat Old
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Good Ammunition to Combat Old
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There are beans and then again
there are beans. A dime once would
buy enough plain everyday beans to
furnish Saturday night supper for
family Of healthy, hearty eaters, and
enough would be left over to help
out on a lunch or two. Not long after
Prussian militarism began the job of
boosting the II. c. of l., II took twice
as much money to buy the same
amount OF beans and now 1t costs
three times as much ii you stick to
Just beans.
But If you say soy beans in a store
where they are on sale. old II. c. slips
a little II slides back from 81, rs. 80
or. 80 cents, according 10 the particu-
lar store, to 10 cents. And queer
fact is that the government experts
say that there is more real food in soy
beans than there is In the beans we
have been taught were the proper
things.
II was about a century ago that
someone imported Soy beans from
China or Japan for use as a forage
crop. They have been used as cattle
feed ever since, perhaps because OF
the fact that nobody took the trouble
to find out that they have been used
as an article for human consumption
in China for centuries.
Scouting around for some sort of
food that would give house
keeper a chance to catch her finan-
cial breath, the experts decided on
soy beans and for the last year they
have been on sale in different sections
of the country with the full approval
and recommendation of the pure food
experts.
1t is well to remember that they
require considerable cooking before
they reach condition that makes
them suitable for consumption.
Cooked as ordinary beans are they
would be about as palatable an article
of food as trap rock. but by soaking
over night, then simmering them for
day and finally baking them in the
time honored manner they have high
ly attractive qualities. A recent gov
eminent bulletin contains the follow
ing information about them.
Since they furnish protein which
contains nitrogen for muscle building
and valuable fat, they are especially
important TO turn to as an emergency
addition to the usual dietary or as
substitutes for other foods furnishing
protein and fat Moreover the fact
that they contain no starch makes
them valuable for invalids who can
not eat starchy foods. These beans
may be grown easily in practically all
sections of the country where corn is
grown and give heavier yields than
most other beans.
THE dried beans may be purchased
new in a number of markets in var
ious parts of the country, often under
the name of togo beans. and should
with the increased acreage OF the
coming season! be more generally
available Soy-bean meal, a by-pro-
duct of oil making, is valuable food
and no doubt win come into more
general use with the increased pro-
iuction of soy beans.
Where dried soy beans are avail
able, they may be baked with or with
out pork like navy and other beans.
They should be soaked overnight and
should be cooked longer than other
kinds of beans The cooking may be
lone economically in a .fireless cooker
Of the sort provided with heating
stones or plates or on the ledge OF
he fire box, inside the furnace, il
he house happens to be heated with
,ne Ct this type.
Dried soy beans have been canned
n considerable quantities during
he past season, baked with pork, and
ire on sale in this form in numerous
Canned green soy beans,
which may be compared with Lima
Jeans, also are on the market in some
sections Of the country. Both these
AIMED products yield as high a pro-
,ortion of energy and higher pro-
'ortion OF protein than the canned
,eans with which they are most close.
Y comparable, and so are more nour-
shing. Both are produced and
handled usually at lower cost than
'ther beans and should therefore be
btainable at lower prices"