Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

• Wash 1 quart of dry beans
• 1 pound of salt pork
• 1 tablespoon of molasses
• 1 of salt
• 6 quarts of water

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, wash, and cook until soft.

2. 2

   Drain, layer beans and salt pork in a bean pot, add molasses, salt, and cover with boiling water.

3. 3

   Bake for 5 hours, ensuring they do not cook dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOSTON BAKED BEANS.—Wash 1 quart of dry beans (the Vermont beans are the best), put them in a pan of cold water; let them soak over night. In the morning wash them in another water, and then place them on the fire in 6 quarts of water, let cook until soft. Drain them and put half in bean pot, then gash 1 pound of salt pork, placing it in bean pot, then the remainder of the beans, 1 tablespoon of molasses, 1 of salt

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