Besides making tofu and bean dregs cake, soybeans can also be used to extract oil, make soybean paste, soy sauce, and sprout beans. There are so many things that can be made from them.
"Bean cake?" Luo Huiniang frowned deeply as if she remembered something unpleasant: "Is it the kind of cake made by crushing soybeans? Third Grandma and some elderly folks in her hometown have made it, and it tasted terrible; it had a strong astringent taste. Moreover, the steamed bean cake crumbled and did not form well, it was even worse than just boiling soybeans." Boiling them until they are soft and mushy, eating them hot would still retain some bean fragrance.
I also have this memory, where Third Grandma and the others found continuously stewing soybeans too monotonous, so they thought of grinding the soybeans into a powder and then mixing it with water to make bean cakes, similar to grinding sorghum or wheat flour, but they failed.
