Baked Beans

Ingredients

• 1 quart dried beans
• 1 pound salt pork
• 3 tablespoonfuls molasses
• one-half teaspoonful salt
• one-fourth teaspoon pepper
• cover with cold water

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, boil for 20 minutes, then place in cooker for 5 hours.

2. 2

   Mix beans with molasses, salt, and pepper, place pork in center, bake for half an hour until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Simple cooking of wholesome food for the farm home (1913) by Jessie Pinning Rich, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Beans. — Soak 1 quart dried beans in cold water over night. Put them in the kettle, add 1 pound salt pork, and cover with cold water. Place the kettle over the fire, boil 20 minutes, then put the kettle in the cooker; cover quickly; let stand 5 hours ; lift out the kettle, turn the beans into a pan, add 3 table- spoonfuls molasses, one-half teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper

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