Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of small white beans
• two quarts of water
• a pound of salt pork
• one and a half tablespoons of molasses
• a quart of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Pick over and wash the beans, soak them in tepid water overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, boil them until the skin begins to crack.

3. 3

   Place the beans in a bean-pot, score the salt pork, and place it in the center of the beans.

4. 4

   Pour hot water over it, add molasses, cover, and bake slowly for three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOSTON BAKED BEANS. " For many generations this has been New England's Sunday dish. The little bean-pots bustling to the bakery Saturday evening and returning the next day in quietness and solemnity for the Sunday dinner, have become a part of history. So many associations cluster around this little crock, that even were its place sup- plied by a new invention better adapted to the purpose, we could not abandon it. But there is nothing better, nor so good. It is broad and low, the mouth about two-thirds the diameter of the crock, but wide enough to admit the piece of pork, put in endwise, then turned. It is easily covered, which is a great advantage, as it is highly important to prevent the escape of the steam and to preserve the flavor of the beans." First obtain a Boston bean-pot and some small white beans ; the small beans are the jbest. Pick over and wash a quart of beans, pour over them a quart of tepid water, and let Jthem soak all night ; in the morning take them out of the water, and put them in a kettle jwith two quarts of water, and boil half or three-quarters of an hour, or until the skin begins to crack ; skim them out of the water, and put them in the " bean-pot" ; score a pound of salt pork, part fat and part lean, in small squares, and put it in the centre of the beans, sinking it to the rind ; pour a quart of hot water over it, add one and a half table- spoons of molass

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