Steve Peek wrote:
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OK, how about a recipe for the soy milk?

My seed came from Johnny's if anyone is interested.
Steve

very easy,

- rinse beans[1]
- soak beans in water for 24 hours, change the water a few times[2]
- blend beans with some water until they are a fine slurry[3]
- dump slurry into more water to cook[4]
- when the foam goes away it's about done, cook a few more minutes[5]
- strain to remove the pieces from the soymilk[6]
- refrigerate, drink, cook with, etc[7]
- the left over ground up cooked beans are edible and useful[8]


Notes:

[1] don't use funny looking beans (in the non-clown
sense of funny). about 1.5 cups dry beans per
gallon of finished soymilk (adjust up or down
to taste).

[2] sometimes they make a popping noise. it's quite
funny (in the clown sense of funny).

[3] the better blender you have the more you'll get
from the bean and the less you'll have to filter
off at the end. i use over a gallon of water to
get a gallon of soymilk. a really good blender
should lower how much water you'd lose after
filtering. yes, you can make a mess if you blend
too much at once.

[4] there is going to be a lot of foam, do not walk away
as this will boil over, stir once in a while or it
will burn.

[5] about 25-35 minutes.

[6] i use a wire sifter for one pour and then put it
through a fine mesh (gold plated) reusable coffee
filter to get the rest of the pieces out.

[7] excellent ingredient to use along with lite coconut
milk for any red or green Thai curry.

[8] i eat some right away, a little sugar and cinnamon
on top. also good in muffins, cakes, etc. but in
the end, i feed some of it to the worm farm too,
they love it.


google "Making Soy Milk" and the site that has the
title milking the bean or something like that is
the easiest description i've found.

for making tofu it's a few more steps, but not too
hard. the just mentioned site covers this too.




songbird