Baked Pork and Beans

Ingredients

• one quart of pea beans
• one onion
• one quarter of a pound of salt pork
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of mustard
• one quarter of a cup of molasses
• Fill the cup with hot water
• one third of a cup of butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak the beans overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, simmer them in fresh water until soft.

3. 3

   Drain and place in a bean-pot with the onion.

4. 4

   Pour boiling water over the salt pork, cut into strips, and bury it in the beans.

5. 5

   Mix salt, mustard, and molasses with hot water, pour over the beans, and add more water to cover.

6. 6

   Bake for eight hours in a moderate oven, uncovering the pork to crisp in the last hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Pork and Beans. Soak one quart of pea beans in cold water over night. In the morning put them into fresh cold water, and simmer till soft enough to pierce with a pin, being careful not to let them boil enough to break. If you like, boil one onion with them. When soft, turn them into a colander, and pour cold water through them. Place them with the onion in a bean-pot. Pour boiling water over one quarter of a 'pound of salt porh^ part fat and part lean ; scrape the rind till white. Cut the rind in half-inch strips ; bury the pork in the beans, leaving only the rind exposed. Mix one teaspoonful of salt — more, if the pork is not very salt — and one teaspoonful of mustard w^ith one quarter of a cup of molasses. Fill the cup with hot water, and when well mixed pour it over the beans ; add enough more water to cover them. Keep them covered with water until the 250 The Boston Cook Book. last hour ; ^then lift the pork to the surface and let it crisp. Bake eight hours in a moderate oven. Use more salt and one third of a cup of butter

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