Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• one quart of navy beans
• one half pound of fat salt pork
• one tablespoon of mustard
• one tablespoon of salt
• two tablespoons of molasses
• two tablespoons of sugar
• one cup of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Wash beans, soak overnight, drain, and cover with boiling water.

2. 2

   Cook until skins burst.

3. 3

   Add soda, stir, and boil for 2 minutes.

4. 4

   Drain and rinse beans.

5. 5

   Mix mustard, salt, molasses, sugar with boiling water.

6. 6

   Place beans in pot with pork, pour liquid over, cover with boiling water, and cook in a slow oven for 6-8 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of cooking (1914) by Emma Conley, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oston. Baked Beans. — Wash one quart of navy beans, cover with cold water, and let them soak over night. Drain off the water, cover with fresh boiling water, and let them cook slowly until the skins begin to burst. Add one tea- spoon of soda, stir well, and boil for two minutes. Drain off the water and rinse the beans well with fresh boiling water. Cut one half pound of fat salt pork in one half inch slices. Mix one tablespoon of mustard, one tablespoon of salt, two tablespoons of molasses, two tablespoons of sugar, with one cup of boiling water

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