Old Fashioned Baked Beans (#1431)
Serves
Ready
8
18
Hours
Prep
Cook
12
Hours
6
Hours
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Ingredients
- 1 pound White Beans
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 medium Onions
- 1/2 pound Salt Pork or bacon
- 1/3 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Molasses
- 2 tsp Dry Mustard
- 1/2 tsp Salt
Directions
- Soak beans overnight, well covered with cold water.
- Pour off soaking water and pick over beans to remove any bad ones, or debris.
- Put beans in a pot.
- Cover with fresh cold water and add 1 teaspoon baking soda.
- Bring to a boil and cook until skins of beans crack when you take one out on a spoon and blow on it.
- Cut onion in quarters and put in bottom of a bean crock or large casserole.
- Add the partially cooked beans.
- Put cut up salt pork or bacon on top.
- Combine brown sugar, molasses, mustard and salt with 1 1/2 cups boiling water.
- Pour over the beans.
- Add more boiling water, if needed, to come just to the top of the beans.
- Add more boiling water as needed during baking time (after 2 & 4 hours add until its to the top of beans again)
- Bake, covered, at 300° f (150° c) for 6 hours, or until beans are tender.
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