Baked Beans

Ingredients

• Soak one pint of beans over night.
• adding one-half teaspoon of soda to water
• Boil one-half pound of either fresh or salt pork
• add salt and tablespoon of butter.

Method

1. 1

   Soak one pint of beans over night.

2. 2

   Parboil, adding one-half teaspoon of soda to water, remove from fire where the skins can be blown off.

3. 3

   Boil one-half pound of either fresh or salt pork, a few moments, add salt and tablespoon of butter.

4. 4

   Put meat in center of baking dish, pour over liquor, adding enough water to cover and more as it cooks away.

5. 5

   Bake in moderate oven four or five hours, keeping dish covered at first.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED BEANS. Mrs. H. H. Pattee. One and one-half pint of beans soaked over night. In the morning pour off water and parboil them. Put in bean pot with one-half pound of salt pork on top and two tablespoons each of sugar and molasses. Add hot water to almost cover beans. Bake all day in moderate oven. An onion and one teaspoon of mus- tard may be added. BAKED BEANS. Soak one pint of beans over night. Parboil, add- ing one-half teaspoon of soda to water, remove from fire where the skins can be blown off. Boil one- half pound of either fresh or salt pork, a few mo- ments, add salt and tablespoon of butter.

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