Pork and Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of small white beans
• Yz lb. of scored salt pork
• a table-spoonful of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight.

2. 2

   Simmer with an onion for 1 hour, remove onion, place beans in a bean-pot with salt pork and a little bean water, and bake for at least 1 hour.

3. 3

   Alternatively, add molasses and bake for at least 2 hours, or bake without parboiling for 8 hours, adding hot water every hour except the last two.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 302. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pork and Beans. — Soak a quart of small white beans overnight. In the morning simmer them an hour with an onion. Take out the onion and put the beans in a bean-pot with Yz lb. of scored salt pork, with a little of the water in which the beans were boiled, and bake at least an hour. Another way : — Omit the onion, but add a table-spoonful of molasses

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