SOY

or Glycine Soja, a species of Legumin ose found in Asia, and especially in China and Japan, where it is cultivated for its fruits known as soy, soja, or sahuca beans. They are used in sauce making, as fodder, and as fertilizers, Fr. cook; settled in London; sent by government to control public kitchens during Irish famine, 1847; reformed food supply in Crime an War; wrote books on cookery. advocate and ecclesiastical historian; wrote Ekklestastike Hist or i a, in 9 vol’s, giving history of Church, 324-439; borrowed largely from So crates’ Church History.