Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of small pea beans
• a pint of hot water
• a half tablespoonful salt
• two tablespoonfuls molasses
• a half teaspoonful mustard
• a pinch of soda
• a pound of 'streaked pig pork'

Method

1. 1

   Pick over beans, soak overnight, parboil until skins crack.

2. 2

   Pour off water, dissolve salt, molasses, mustard, and soda in hot water, and layer beans and pork in a pot.

3. 3

   Cover with beans and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOSTON BAKED BEANS— Pick over a quart of small pea beans, wash thoroughly and soak over night in warm water. In the morning parboil them until the skins crack open. Pour off the water. Put into the bottom of a glazed earthenware pot, made expressly for the purpose, a pint of hot water in which have been dissolved a half tablespoonful salt, two tablespoonfuls molasses, a half teaspoonful mustard, and a pinch of soda

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