SECTION II.-—DIVERS USES OF BEAN OIL

(1) Owp Uses or Bean OIL

We shall now proceed to dwell on the divers uses of
Bean Oil.

The old uscs of Bean Oil were chiefly for frying and
other cooking uses, as a source of light, and also as a
lubricating oil.

(2) RerFivep Bean Oi as Foop

Crude Bean Oil, if deodorized and refined, becomes
perfectly odourless with an excellent flavour. It is fit to
be used as table oil, salad oil, and in packing sardines, ete.,
in tins. It also permits of being mixed with olive oil for
a compound. Moreover, since how to hydrogenate Bean
Oil was invented, Bean Oil, too, in its hardened form, has
been made mixable with other liquid oils and solid fats

for table ure.

‘3) SUBSTITUTE FOR LARD

A substitute for lard is manufactured by mixing a
liquid oil of light colour with hog’s fat of other animal’s
fat or solid vegetable fat (like coconut oil) and other solid
fats. Dearth of animal fat, together with the enlargement
of uses for cotton-seed oil that has been employed most
extensively in this line having consplred to create shortage

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