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Henry Ford's Chocolate Chip Soybean Cookies

Ingredients & Directions


3 c Light brown sugar
1 c Soy margarine
4 lg Eggs
3 c Cake or all-purpose flour
1 c Soy flour
1 ts Salt
2 ts Baking soda
2 tb Milk
1 ts Vanilla
2 c Crushed soybean nuts
-(roasted unsalted)
4 c Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 F. In large mixing bowl, cream brown sugar and
margarine with electric mixer. Beat for 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time
and cream until smooth consistency. Combine dry ingredients and add to
mixture. Add milk and vanilla. Stir in soybeans and chocolate chips. Chill
batter, if desired.

Spray baking sheets with non-stick vegetable coating. Drop cookie batter
onto sheets with a teaspoon. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Makes approximately 10
dozen soft cookies.
Nutritional Analysis-1 cookie:
Calories 92
Fat 2.5g
Saturated fat 0.3g
Carbohydrate 11g
Protein 1.4g
Cholesterol 7mg
Sodium 74mg

This recipe was one of Henry Ford’s favorite snacks. The recipe was found
in Cooking For Henry, a cookbook by Henry Ford’s personal party chef, Jan
Willemse. In 1934, Mr. Ford requested Willemse experiment in cooking with
soybeans, and the cookbook has an entire chapter dedicated to soybean
recipes.

Ford was a strong supporter of soybeans and saw the possibility for the
use of soybeans in food, milk, ice cream, paint, plastics, and many
other things before 1930. In Ford’s fast-growing automobile industry,
and since, the soybean played a large part in the manufacturing of
commercial products.

Reprinted with permission from the Indiana Soybean Development Council.
Meal-

Yields
120 Cookies