Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• one pound of well salted pork
• one tablespoon of molasses
• two tablespoons of good butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil beans until half done, then add pork until half cooked.

2. 2

   Remove pork and mash beans.

3. 3

   Place beans in a bean pot, bury pork in beans, and cover.

4. 4

   Bake for 6-8 hours, removing cover last hour to brown.

5. 5

   Add boiling water as needed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pound of well salted pork until half cooked to season the beans, if they are not sufficiently salt add more. Have a teakettle of hot soft water on stove to replenish with. (If you have to use hard water soften it with a little soda.) Take out the pork and boil the beans until they can be easily mashed between the thumb and finger; then put the beans into a deep earthen bean pot, and the salt pork buried in the beans all but the rind, which should be gashed one-half inch apart. Some like one tablespoon of molasses in the beans. If you prefer you can leave out the pork and the molasses, and stir in instead two tablespoons of good butter. Put on cover and bake from six to eight hours, taking the cover off the last hour to brown and crisp the top and rind of pork. The "QueenCt^k ^ook 123 Add boiling water from time to time, as it may need to prevent burning. This is Boston baked beans

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