Comments on: Homemade Organic Soymilk

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:53:35 +0000

When first making soymilk, it came out with a beanie flavor to it. I tried covering up the bean flavor with splenda and vanilla. Still, not to good. I once spent a week removing the skins off the beans, Still no good. Almost gave up making soymilk. Now I just soak the beans for a day or two and do the following. Comes out great. Best soy milk I have ever had.

One day I came across an article on making soymilk. Said to blanch the beans in 1-2 quarts of boiling water with 1 teaspoon of baking soda for 5 minutes. Do this twice.

Note: I use two pans. 1 large enought to hold 6-8 quarts of water, to boil enought water for making the milk, and a smaller one to blanch the beans

Recipe:
1-cup soybeans soaked in cold water for about 8-12 hrs. Rinse often.
Blanch the beans.
Note: 1-cup dry beans turns into almost 3-cups after soaking.
Mix 1-cup soaked soybeans on hi speed in a blender with 3-4 cups boiling water for 5 minutes.
Note: You must hold the cover on real good or it may explode. I put the cover on and take out the middle piece for adding ingredients off. You can cover the hole with a cup or paper towel. I have not had a problem mixing with the small hole on top uncovered.
Repeat with the rest of the beans.
After mixing, put in a large pot, and bring to a boil. Stir often.
Adjust the heat and simmer for about twenty minutes. Stir often.
Strain the mixture with a fine strainer. Some use cheese cloth.
Makes about ½ gallon.
You could add some splenda, vanilla, or brown sugar to add some flavor to it, while you cook it. I found that once I got the beanie flavor out of the milk, it didn’t need anything added to it.

By: kiss my spatula

kiss my spatula — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:38:35 +0000

my only advice would be to try to wean yourself off the commercial stuff. i’m chinese/vietnamese and grew up drinking only the real deal, so when i tasted the boxed soy milk, i couldn’t believe it was being marketed as soy milk! hope you give it another chance. i love making my own at home too. this method requires much less straining and is super easy: http://kissmyspatula.com/2009/12/20/fresh-homemade-soy-milk/

By: J Baker

J Baker — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:58:13 +0000

What I ended up doing was combining several recipes. I first rised my beans to get any chaff out of the beans, then soaked my beans (1 cup) with about 1/8th tsp baking soda for around 12 hours. I then rinsed and gently rubbed off any skins. I continued rinsing the beans until there were no skins remaining. instead of boiling and grinding the beans I used my soymilk maker. I then started straining the milk until there was no residue left and the milk would pass through a very fine strainer. I then added vanilla syrup for flavoring. It came out a very smooth soy milk that was similiar to unflavored or slightly vanilla soymilk. one drawback was that the one cup of beans ended up making 2 cups of milk.

By: Christopher Earle

Christopher Earle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:50:16 +0000

There are as many recipes and ways of making soy milk as there are traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean/SE Asian households.

Heat the beans a for a couple minutes in a microwave once you have them hulled. If the hulls don’t come off easily, soak the beans a little longer. You may have had a particularly dry batch (this ain’t an exact science).

Add a TOUCH of salt, this can improve flavor. I happen to like vanilla and almond soy milk, so I add a few drops of extract and some honey/brown sugar/sugar, depending on the mood I’m in.

I prefer homemade, both the taste and the cost. My problem is that I haven’t found a source for dried soybeans :-).

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:48:36 +0000

I don’t really like Silk soymilk… I have to mix it equal parts with rice milk to be able to drink it straight, but man… Soymilk in japan is just So Good and in many flavors and probiotic drinks that I hit up the konbini every 2 hours when I’m there. xD… That said, the closest thing I have found in the u.s. Is kikkoman’s Pearl brand… But you should definitely look to Japanese cookbooks for inspiration on homemade soymilk :)

By: Lisa @ Me and My House

Lisa @ Me and My House — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:11:20 +0000

Hi, I just found your blog. I don’t like commercial soy milk at all – Rice Dream is the only commercial milk-substitute I’ve found that we like. BUT I do like the soy milk we’ve made in the “$100 machine”. Doing it by hand looks like too much work for a regular basis for our large family. But the machine is so simple and makes good milk very quickly and easily – soy, nut, even rice – though that took a while to “perfect”. And, except the soy, I can do them all raw, which I REALLY like. So we don’t do soy often, even though the machine does it great. We usually make raw nut or nut/rice milks. The machine paid for itself in just a a few of not buying commercial non-milks.

By: mary lowther

mary lowther — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:47:39 +0000

According to the Cornell recipe I read years ago, from what I remember you don’t need to take the husks off the beans after you soak them. Then add 1 cup boiling water to the blender to heat it up. Have ready a thick towel and more boiling water. Add 1 cup beans to the blender with 4 cups boiling water. Wrap it with the towel and blend for a couple of minutes. Strain it off into a saucepan, and proceed with the rest the same way. It’s important to keep the beans hot to stop the enzymatic action which makes the soymilk taste bitter.

And that’s all I’m sure about, I wish I could remember the timing of heating up the liquid or if you could add more water to the mash to make more (I don’t think so). I think the recipe might have been in an Adelle Davis book. Anyway, it tasted waaaay better than the commercial stuff, which has been watered down too much. Although, I just bought a great soymilk which isn’t too thin, has 12 grams of protein/cup and it’s only ingredients are soybeans and water. It’s called “Edensoy”.

By: brianklein

brianklein — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:13:13 +0000

Thanks for the info on how to make soy milk. Can anyone tell me what stores carried the white dried soybeans for making soy milk. I live in the New York area and my e-mail is klein_returns@hotmail.com

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