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FOOD VALUE, OF SOY BEANS. 
A N interesting and, as we think, highly 
successful experiment which we have 
tried recently, and for which the high 
cost of living is responsible, is the use of 
Soy beans for food. Lentils had been 
one of our most valued meat substitutes, 
but when they went up some months since 
to twice their former price, and, coinci¬ 
dent with this misfortune, occurred our 
first Soy bean crop, the resourceful hus¬ 
bandman and the housewife with the 
empty jar in her cupboard, were equally 
prompt in seizing upon the moment for 
experiment. 
We knew that the Japanese habitually 
use Soy beans .us food, and we found in 
the English notes accompanying a Jap¬ 
anese book called “The Useful Plants of 
Japan.” the following interesting but un¬ 
enlightening facts: “They are used to 
make miso (a kind of sauce with solid 
consistency), cakes. * * * shoyu 
(bean sauce), and yuba (a kind of food). 
The mamenoko (bean flour) is made of 
the beans and is eaten with dango,” etc. 
But we also found “all are eaten boiled or 
parched.” Here was solid ground to 
stand on ! So we began by stewing them 
like ordinary beans, and followed this by 
preparing them like Boston baked beans. 
Served in these ways they were voted 
“not bad,” but wore not enthusiastically 
received, owing to their rather disagree¬ 
able waxy consistency. But when made 
into a soup exactly as we make lentil 
soup—mashing them through a colander 
when sufficiently cooked, and adding milk 
and thickening—they were hailed as a 
complete success. If one does not like 
the Soy bean flavor and does like that of 
onions, the latter may be added. In 
either case it makes a “hearty” soup, and 
when served with croutons has all the 
requirements for a balanced meal. 
Soy beans contain considerable oil —tz 
much, in fact, that they are more like 
peanuts than like ordinary beans. This 
made the next stage of our experiment, 
especially interesting. We parched the 
leans by stirring them in a frying pan 
over a hot fire. As this was being done 
a delicious and (be it confessed!) un¬ 
usual odor was wafted through the house, 
and from one member of the family was 
heard the delighted exclamation: “Why, 
it smells exactly like broiling beefsteak !” 
Our faithful servitor, the hand-mill, per¬ 
formed tin 1 next operation, grinding the 
parched beans into something that looked 
like ground coffee. This we made into a 
beverage, preparing it like commercial 
coffee substitute, and it found favor with 
some, though not witn all, members of 
the family. The ground beans smelled 
like peanuts, and this gave us an idea 
that worked out most successfully. We 
ground some to a powder through the 
coffee grinder, and this powder mixed 
with a little soft butter, with cream or 
with olive oil tastes so much like peanut 
butter as not to be distinguished from it. 
For this latter use the powder should 
be yellowish, not brown, and in neither 
case should t ho beans be parched until 
brown all over. The parching and grind¬ 
ing take considerable time, and we do 
not care to go through with these pro¬ 
cesses very often, but the soup alone is 
such a valuable addition to our food sup¬ 
ply that we feel more than satisfied with 
the result of our experiment. H. Tt. T. 
Medicinal Value of Pumpkin. 
1 HAVE hoard that the water from 
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a cure for colic. Do you know any¬ 
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R. N.-Y. fnmliy know whether it is good 
for either man or beast? Q. 
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given previously is likely to acquire a 
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given by educated physicians for more 
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to distinguish between nature’s work and 
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