Ingredients for Bean Patties Recipe
2 cups bean puree
1 ½ tablespoons vegetable butter
1 tablespoon chopped onion
3 tablespoons flour
1 egg
Scant 1/3 cup hot milk
A sprinkle of sage
Salt to taste

Instructions
Cook the beans until soft and mash through a colander, having the pulp as dry as possible.
In case it is too soft, it may be put into the oven for a few minutes.
Make a paste as follows for holding the food together: Put the butter, the onion, and the savory into a small saucepan, and let simmer for a few moments, but do not brown.
Add the flour and mix; then the milk and stir smooth.
Add the egg, slightly broken up, and stir over the fire until smooth and a very thick paste.
Salt to taste and add the bean puree.
Mix well, and let cool; then roll out into small, round cakes about 3/4 inch thick, mark on the top with a knife, lay in an oiled baking pan, brush over with cream or milk and brown lightly in a hot oven.

Ingredients for Bean And Potato Pie Recipe
1 1/2 cup lima beans
Water
Salt to taste
3 cups sliced potatoes (raw)
1 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. flour
Pastry pie crust to cover
Instructions
Wash lima beans and cook gently in plenty of water, with salt to taste.
Drain and add sufficient water to make 3 cups.
Add 3 cups sliced raw potatoes and salt to taste, and let boil gently until the potatoes are tender.
Stir 1 butter and flour in a saucepan over the fire until blended, add a little of the broth, and stir smooth.
Add more broth and pour over the cooked potatoes.
Add the cooked beans, shake together, and pour into an oiled baking pan.
Cover with pie crust, and bake at 350 degrees to a light brown.

Ingredients

2 carrots, peeled, quartered
2 turnips, peeled, quartered
3 beets, peeled, cut in pieces
2 onions, peeled, quartered
4 tomatoes, cut in halves
3 sweet potatoes, peeled, sliced thick
3 white potatoes, peeled, sliced thick
4 tablespoons butter
¾ cup water
Seasonings to taste

Instructions

Put all ingredients in a large baking dish.
Bake slowly in moderate oven for 45 minutes.
Then serve

AGE-RELATED deafness, and hearing loss caused by loud noise, may be reduced by the antioxidants in red wine, green tea and aspirin, it was claimed yesterday.

The compounds they contain could help protect the delicate hairs of the inner ear that are vital to hearing, new research suggests.

Destructive chemical agents called oxygen-free radicals, produced by normal cellular processes and in response to loud noise and exposure to powerful antibiotics, can damage the hairs.

But antioxidants such as resveratrol, found in red wine and green tea, and salicylate, the active ingredient in aspirin, should be able to neutralise them.

To test whether this was the case, scientists in the United States used salicylate to prevent damage to hair cells in patients’ ears caused by the strong antibiotic, gentamicin. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to bring someone around to your way of thinking you should make sure they’ve got a cup of coffee in their hand, according to research showing that caffeine makes us more open to persuasion.

The Australian researchers say a caffeine hit improves our ability to process information and increases the extent to which we listen to and take on board a persuasive message.

They tested this by quizzing people about their attitudes to voluntary euthanasia and abortion before and after either the equivalent of about two cups of coffee or a placebo.

They were also given a persuasive argument to read after having the caffeine.

The experiments showed that “caffeine increases persuasion through instigating systematic processing of the message”.

But caffeine also puts people in a better mood, which makes them more likely to agree with a message, the researchers say.

The research is posted on the Queensland University of Technology website and is submitted for publication in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Read the rest of this entry »