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BEAN SPROUTS AND BEVERAGES
HOW TO PREPARE BEAN SPROUTS
These come in cans, but it is better to make them fresh at home, and it is
easily done.
Take ordinary white beans, or dried lima beans, and soak over night in lukewarm
water. In the morning take a large cloth, wet it, and set it on a table. Over
this spread the beans. The cloth must be kept wet. In a night or two the beans
will have sprouted. Use the sprouts as directed in the chop suey recipes.
BEVERAGES
Tea, of course, is the staple drink of both the Chinese and the Japanese, and it
comes in any number of varieties. Of the Chinese teas a few may be especially
recommended, such as Loong Taing, Long Gue, Oolong, and Lung Sue. Of the
Japanese teas, Gyukura, or, in English, Pearl Dews,
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