Bean Sprouts

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Soak ordinary white beans or dried lima beans overnight in lukewarm water.
  2. In the morning, wet a large cloth and spread it on a table.
  3. Spread the soaked beans over the cloth.
  4. Keep the cloth wet.
  5. In one or two nights the beans will have sprouted.
  6. Use the sprouts as directed in chop suey recipes.

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