Baked Beans

Ingredients

• one quart of pea beans
• one-fourth teaspoon of soda
• one-quarter to one-half of a pound of salt pork
• one teaspoon of salt
• one-fourth cup or less of molasses
• one-half teaspoon of dry mustard
• one tablespoon of olive oil

Method

1. 1

   Soak the beans overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   In the morning, simmer in fresh water until they burst slightly.

3. 3

   Drain and place in a bean pot.

4. 4

   Bury the pork in the beans, mix salt and molasses with water, pour over beans, and add more water to cover.

5. 5

   Bake for 8 to 12 hours in a slow oven, adding hot water as needed.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The home science cook book (1902) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Beans. Soak one quart of pea beans over night in cold water. In the morning put them into fresh water and simmer until they burst slightly on removing a few of them in a spoon and blowing on them. One-fourth teaspoon of soda is often put in this water when the beans are parboiled. Then turn them into a colander and drain 148 Home Science Cook Book. thoroughly, and place in the small-top earthen bean pot. Wash one-quarter to one-half of a pound of salt pork, part fat and part lean, scrape the rind till white, and cut it one inch deep in half-inch strips. Bury the pork in the beans, leaving only the rind in sight. Mix one teaspoon of salt and one-fourth cup or less of molasses with some water and pour over the beans. Add enough more water to cover them, and keep add- ing hot water as needed until the last hour. Bake from eight to twelve hours in a slow oven, the longer the better, so long as the beans are kept moist. One- half teaspoon of dry mustard may be added with the salt and molasses. Sugar may be used instead of molasses and part butter instead of all pork. Vegetarians leave out the pork and add one table- spoon of olive o

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