Pork and Beans (Baked)

Ingredients

• two quarts of white beans
• a piece of salt pork
• a tablespoonful of molasses
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• a lump of butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight, then scald and cook with salt pork until soft.

2. 2

   Add molasses and soda, stir well, place in a deep pan, and bake for one and a half hours.

3. 3

   If not using pork, salt the beans and add butter before baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PORK AND BEANS. (Baked.) Take two quarts of white beans, pick them over the night before, put to soak in cold water; in the morning put them in fresh water and let them scald, then turn off the water and put on more, hot; put to cook with them a piece of salt pork, gashed, as much as would make five or six slices; boil slowly till soft (not mashed), then add a tablespoonful of molasses, half a teaspoonful of soda, stir in well, put in a deep pan, and bake one hour and a half. If you do not like to use pork, salt the beans when boiling, and add a lump of butter

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