Pork and Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of beans
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• a slice of pork
• two or three tablespoonfuls of molasses
• half or three-fourths of a pound of well washed salt pork
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Pick over beans and soak overnight; in the morning wash and drain, boil in cold water with soda for about thirty minutes, drain, and put in an earthen pot with pork and molasses.

2. 2

   Cover with hot water, and bake for six hours, adding hot water as needed; keep covered to prevent burning, but remove cover an hour or two before serving to brown the top.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PORK AND BEANS. Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let them soak over night; in the morning wash and drain into another MEATS. 41 water, put on to boil in cold water with half a teaspoon- ful 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 tablespoonfuls of mo- lasses. When the beans are in the pot, put in the centre half or three-fourths of a pound of well washed salt pork with the rind scored into slices, and uppermost; season with pepper

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