Brown Baked Beans (Boston Style)

Ingredients

• one quart of white beans
• one pound of salt pork
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one tablespoonful of molasses
• one-half teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, boil until tender, drain, and rinse.

2. 2

   Place in a kettle, add washed salt pork on top, then salt, molasses, and soda.

3. 3

   Cover with cold water and bake for nine hours in a moderately heated oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN BAKED BEANS (BOSTON STYLE). Soak one quart of white beans in lukewarm water over night. In the morning boil them until tender and the outer skin cracks, then drain them and rinse thorough- ly in cold water. Put them in a kettle; wash and scrape one pound of salt pork; cut the rind into squares and place on top of the beans. Add one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of molasses, and one-half teaspoonful Of soda

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