Baked Beans

Ingredients

• three cupfuls of small white beans
• about half a pound of thick salt pork
• a little salt
• pepper
• two teaspoonfuls of white sugar
• water

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, boil for two hours with soda, then place in a baking dish.

2. 2

   Score pork rind, place in beans, season, and fill with water.

3. 3

   Bake for two hours or longer until brown and juicy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

baked beans, and he liked a lot of pepper on them; and he always spoke of the two things together. ' ' "Did grandmother's baked beans taste like the ones we have now-'days?" asked Constance, deeply inter- ested. Like many other children, she was always in- terested in good things to eat. "No," replied her mother, "I haven't baked any beans mother's way for a longtime, but I believe I will to-morrow; shall I?" "Oh, yes, mamma, do! Eix 'em just ezactly as your mother used to for Sammy, and I want to see how you do it." That night mamma put three cupfuls of small white beans in cold water to soak all night. Next morning she put them into fresh water and boiled them for two hours, stirring in a small lump of soda before taking them from the stove. Then, with a long-handled skim- mer she took them out into a big, shallow baking dish. She had ready a long, narrow piece of thick salt pork, streaked with lean— about half a pound in weight — 134 The Complete Cook Book. which she had washed and soaked in cold water. With a sharp knife she scored the rind in narrow, even strips. "What do you do that for?" asked Constance, who was carefully watching her every movement. "When the beans are done the pork rind will be so hard and crisp I can't cut it nicely, so I have to do it beforehand," replied her mother. Then she pushed the pork right down into the mid- dle of the dish of beans, so that only the rind was in sight, and sprinkled a little salt, pepper, and two tea- spoonfuls of white suga

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