Baked Beans

Ingredients

• Soak a qt. of small white b.ans
• 2 (u- : 5 slices of salt pork
• a good-sized whole union
• a teaspoon of salt
• a saltspoon of ground mustard
• 2 spoons of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   Put over the fire with enough cold water to cover and 1 saltspoon of soda.

3. 3

   When the water begins to boil, pour it off and put beans in colander, letting cold water run over them until they are thoroughly chilled.

4. 4

   Place salt pork and onion in the bottom of the bean pot, pour in the beans, and add more salt pork on top.

5. 5

   Add salt, mustard, and molasses.

6. 6

   Cover with cold water and bake in a slow oven for 8 to 10 hours, adding boiling water as needed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Beans. Soak a qt. of small white b.ans over night in cold water. Put over the (ire with enouu-h cold water to cover aiul \[, a saltsi)oon of soda. When the water be- gins to boilpour it off at once and pu't beans in colander and let cold water run^ over them until thev are thoroughly cliilled. This keei)S them llrm. Tut •-' (u- :', slices of salt ])ork in the bottom of tlie bean pot, on top of which lay a good-si/.ed ^yhole union, then pour in the l)eans, ])ut i/o or % of a 11). of salt pork on the top. Add a teaspoon of salt, a saltspoon of ground mustard and 2 spoons of molasses

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