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Note: This article was reprinted in the Times of India
(New Delhi) on 16 Oct. 1974 (p. 6) under the title “Looking
for new protein sources in war on malnutrition.”
254. Farm, The. 1974. Yay soybeans! How you can eat better
for less and help feed the world. Summertown, Tennessee:
The Book Publishing Co. 14 p. Illust. 22 cm.
• Summary: This highly creative little booklet, printed
with blue ink on white paper (a similar 1978 edition
used brown ink on white paper), contains many original
/ pioneering soyfoods recipes (marked with an asterisk
(*)). Contents: Living on soybeans. Some of our favorite
ways to eat soybeans. Basic cooked soybeans: Soybeans
and tortillas, Soybean stroganoff, Soyburgers, Soy fritters,
Cheezy soybeans (Good Tasting Nutritional Yeast gives
the cheezy fl avor), Soy nuts (dry roasted), Soy coffee. Soy
milk: Homemade using soy fl our or using soybeans, Soy ice
cream–”Ice Bean,”* (made with soy milk in vanilla or cocoa
fl avors), Soy yogurt* (made with soymilk and starter from
Chr. Hansen’s Lab. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Soy fl our:
Basic salad and sandwich spread, Seasoned sandwich spread.
Soy cheese* (made from fermented / soured soymilk), Soy
cheesecake* (made with “soy cheese”), Cookie crust for
cheesecake, Soy mayonnaise* (made with soymilk). Soy
pulp [okara]: Introduction, Soy pulp burgers*, Scalloped
potatoes and pulp, Soysage*, Protein spice cake (with soy
pulp), Soy pulp cookies, and Soyola* (soy pulp granola).
Eggless cookery: Introduction, Pancakes (with soymilk),
Chocolate cake (with sour fresh soymilk), Soy souffl é (with
soy fl our). Good Tasting Nutritional Yeast: Introduction,
Melty nutritional yeast “cheese,” Nutritional yeast “cheese”
crackers, Golden gravy. Nutrition of soybeans: Nutritional
composition of 1 cup whole cooked soybeans, 1 cup
sweetened soymilk, 1 cup mother’s milk, 1 cup cow’s milk.
“We supplement our soymilk with vitamin A (150 mcg./cup),
vitamin D (2.5 mcg./cup), and vitamin B12 (6 mcg./cup).”
Composition of soymilk and soypulp (wet and dry, including
PER). Some facts about people and food. Plenty.
Page 1 begins, “On The Farm we live on soybeans. They
supply us with the protein part of our diet, taking the place of
meat, fi sh, eggs, milk, and dairy products. We are complete
vegetarians and don’t eat any of those foods. We are growing
150 acres of soybeans this year to feed our community of
800 folks... We’ve been living, working, and growing on this
diet for four years now, as a community, and many of us have
been vegetarians longer than that. So far we’ve delivered 230
babies here on the Farm...” The last page notes that The Farm
has “formed a new non-profi t corporation called Plenty, with
the following purposes, as stated in its charter: To help share
out the world’s food, resources, materials, and knowledge
equitably for the benefi t of all...”
The section titled “Soy Pulp” (p. 7) states: “If you make
soymilk, you’ll have soy pulp left in the cloth when your
milk is done. Our soy dairy produces lots of pulp every day,
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and although the pulp contains less protein than the milk,
the protein it has is high quality, so we’ve been putting our
creative kitchen instincts to work developing new ways to
use this nutritious foodage. We’ve found that soy pulp can
be substituted for rice in many recipes. It also can be used
in baked goods likes cakes and cookies, where it gives a
coconutty fl avor when combined with sugar and vanilla
extract...” Three recipes are given.
Note 1. This is the earliest document seen (Oct. 2003)
that uses the term “soy dairy” to refer to a facility which
makes soymilk and products from soymilk.
The last page is about “Plenty.” “Living in Tennessee
and eating our soybeans hasn’t seemed like quite enough
to be doing about world hunger and other areas of human
need around the planet. So we have formed a new non-profi t
corporation called Plenty, with the following purposes, as
stated in its charter:
“’To help share out the world’s food, resources,
materials, and knowledge equitably for the benefi t of all.
“’To help and aid any people anywhere in the world who
due to any natural or man-caused disaster such as drought,
famine, fl ood, earthquake, tidal wave, weather imbalance,
disease epidemic, storm, fi re, insect devastation, crop failure,
population imbalance, war, political oppression, religious
oppression, racial discrimination, or greed, are in need of
food, clothing, shelter, medical aid and supplies, resources,
materials; agricultural, engineering, or scientifi c assistance or
education; or anything else, to enable them to lead healthy,
comfortable, responsible, and productive lives in the pursuit
of happiness...
“’To accept donations, gifts, devises, bequests, and
loans of food resources, materials, equipment, funds, stocks,
bonds, and property of all kinds from any and all sources to
help achieve the purposes of the corporation;
“’To establish and coordinate a group of volunteer
workers who will help achieve the purposes of the
corporation; such volunteers will not be salaried, but will
receive only necessary subsistence...
“’To enter into any partnership or union of interest
with others... or produce food, resources, materials, funds,
or knowledge that will help achieve the purposes of the
corporation;
“’To establish and operate orphanages and foster homes
to care for and provide homes for orphans from all countries
of the world...
“’To help and aid in fi nding homes with adopting parents
for orphans from all countries of the world, and to help these
orphans settle in these homes with adopting parents...’
“We really do have Plenty. Let’s spread it around!
“For further information, write: Plenty, Route 1, Box
289, Summertown, Tennessee 38483.”
Note 2. This is the earliest English-language document
seen (Oct. 2001) that uses the term “soy pulp” or the word
“soypulp” to refer to okara.