The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-03-20
HOUSEWIVES URGED TO
GROW BEAN SPROUTS


Large and roomy country kitch-
ems and tiny city kitchenettes can
serve as emergency gardens this
spring before out-of-door gardens
are ready for use, and produce a
most valuable and delicious food
bean sprouts at the cost of a
few cents, according to the bureau
of home economics, of the United
States department of agriculture.
A pound of beans, costing from
five to eighteen cents, will produce
enough sprouts to serve four or
five people the bureau points out.
Very little extra work or space is
necessary, and the sprouts r a
valuable source of that very i'm
portant vitamin, C, which is also
found in tomatoes and citrus fruits
such as oranges and lemons. Dried
beans, peas, corn and even the
smaller cereal grains can be used
for this purpose though if the latter
are sprouted a much larger guam
tity has to be handled.
Sprouting changes legumes and
grains into an entirely different
type of vegetable. Bean sprouts
are an old story in the Chinese
dietary but the Occidental has
made little use of this source of
vegetables. The bureau suggests
that they have a regular place in
the diet, especially where families
are living on limited incomes and
are not likely to get a sufficient
supply of vitamin G.
One method of sprouting, as out
lined by the bureau, is as follows:
wet some cheese cloth and sprinkle
il with dried beans. Roll the cloth,
with the beans in it. around a
stock about a foot long and place
an end of the roll in water. Occa-
.sionally the whole roll should be
dampened. Another way Is to
place the beans in any receptacle
that has holes in it for draining
and which can be covered, as a
strainer or granite or aluminium
colander. Do not fill the recep-
tacle, for the beans will swell to
at least six times their original
size. Soak the beans to be sprout-
ed over night. The next morning
place them in the container. Keen
the sprouts are about n inch
and flood them with water at least
Jour or five times daily.
The beans are ready to use when
he sprouts are about one inch
ong. Different varieties of beans
different lengths Of time
sprout-pinto beans take about
,ne week; mung beans, which are
he sprouts found in chow mien.
iprout in three or four days; and
10y beans require four to six days.
only enough for immediate use
be sprouted at one time, for j.;
hey are as perishable as other ,
resh vegetables. Sprouts may be
erved as any leafy vegetable or :
ombined with meat or other veg :
tables; used raw or cooked in
melets or cheese dishest One 7
ecipe for the preparation of 7
prouts is as follows: =
.orned Beef With Bean Sprouts I
3 pound corned beef c
tablespoons diced salt pork
onion
ash of cayenne pepper 4
tablespoon flour "a
Cook the corned beef in a small =
of water until tender. Fry
lie salt pork until crisp. Remove 4
lie pork. Brown the onion in the
It. Stir in the flour, mix well, Il
add the liquid in which the il
eat was cooked and enough more
alter to make two cups. Stir until W
Iickened, add diced meat, pork. N
sprouts and cayenne. Heat B
bout five minutes, stirring con- id
antly. taking care not to break
tender sprouts. f
Prepare two cups of dried beans, al
'as Or corr as outlined above. e1
orouts from this amount should
rye four persons. q
County Dem. Agent Hart n,