Baked Beans

Ingredients

• 1 qt white beans
• 1/2 or 1/4 lb salt pork
• 1 small onion
• 1/2 teasp ground mustard
• 1 teasp salt
• 1/2 teasp pepper
• 1/2 cup molasses

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight.

2. 2

   Drain, cover with cold water, boil for 30 minutes, add a pinch of soda, boil until skins crack, then drain.

3. 3

   Boil salt pork for 20 minutes, cut gashes in fat, place pork and beans in a bean pot with onion.

4. 4

   Mix mustard, salt, pepper, and molasses with pork cooking liquid, pour over beans, bake slowly for 8 hours, adding water if necessary.

5. 5

   Brown the top for the last half hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 122. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Beans Soak 1 qt white beans in cold water over night (15 or 16 hours is none too long). Next morning drain, cover with cold water, boil ^/^ hour, then add a pinch of soda, and let boil, uncovered, until skins crack; then drain. Meanwhile boil % or % lb salt pork about 2 0 minutes, then cut deep gashes crisscross in the top fat of the pork, and put the pork and the parboiled beans in a bean pot, so that the cut pork will be even with the top of the beans; also put 1 small onion, peeled, in with the beans. In a large cup mix ^ teasp ground mustard, 1 teasp salt, and % teasp pepper, with ^/^ cup molas- ses

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