Pork and Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of beans
• half a teaspoon of soda
• a slice of pork
• two or three table-spoons of molasses
• half or three-fourths of a pound of well-washed salt pork
• pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Pick over beans and soak overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, wash and drain, then boil in cold water with soda for about thirty minutes.

3. 3

   Drain and layer in an earthen pot with pork and beans, adding molasses and seasoning.

4. 4

   Cover with hot water and bake for six hours or longer, adding water as needed.

5. 5

   Remove cover an hour before serving to brown the top.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pint of water baste frequently, turning over once so as.to bake both sides equally until a rich brown. YANKEE PorK AND BEANS. Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let them soak over night; in the morning wash and drain in another water, put on to boil in cold water with half a teaspoon of soda; boil about thirty minutes (when done the skin of a bean will crack if taken out and blown upon), drain, and put in an earthen pot first a slice of pork — and then the beans, with two or three table-spoons of molasses. When the beans are in the pot, put in the center half or three- fourths of a pound of well-washed salt por

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