Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• two cups of pea beans
• two tablespoons of molasses
• one small onion
• half a pound of salt pork
• a dash of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, boil until soft.

2. 2

   In a bean pot, layer molasses, onion, salt pork, and seasonings.

3. 3

   Cover with water and bake, adding water as needed.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread You will find a number of different ways to bake beans and make brown bread in the following recipes, which have been 21 Bread 23 given me by a number of my friends and each pronounced as being really excellent. As it is rather difficult to locate these particular recipes in most of our cook books, I considered it a wise idea to have these recipes set up together, in a way that they may be easily found when needed. Pork and Beans Put one pound of beans to soak over night, boil in morning till soft, put into baking pan two tablespoons of molasses, one small onion, one pound fat pickled pork and a dash of pepper; cover with water, put in moderate oven and bake all day, adding a cup of water every little while to keep from burning. Boston Brown Bread One cup Graham flour, one cup white flour, one cup Indian meal, two tablespoons brown sugar, one teaspoon salt, one cup of sweet milk, one cup sour milk with one-half teaspoon baking soda and half a cup of blackstrap ; stir all together and steam four hours. — Mrs. Jno. Rufus Skinner. Boston Baked Beans Soak two cups of pea beans over night. Boil them until the skin of the bean cracks when you blow on it. Put into bean pot two tablespoons of molasses and a small onion; if wanted, salt and a dash of pepper, a little mustard, and half a pound of salt pork

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