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Baked Beans

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  • Servings: 7
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 7-9h
    • The following recipe serves 7 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1/4 pound dried beans (baby lima beans, 1/2 cup)
  • 1/4 pound dried beans (yellow-eye beans, 1/2 cup)
  • 1/4 pound dried beans (kidney beans, 1/2 cup)
  • 1/4 pound dried beans (white pea beans, 1/2 cup)
  • 1/2 pound salt pork
  • 1 whole medium (8 ounce) yellow onion
  • 1 teaspoon dry minced onion
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
  • 3 tablespoons molasses
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
  • Hot water
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Pick over the beans and wash in cold water several times; cover with cold water and let soak overnight.

  • Step 2: In the morning drain them, put in pan, and cover with water and parboil till the skins crack and roll up when you blow on them---35-40 minutes or so.

  • Step 3: Place onion in the bottom of the bean pot and add the beans saving some of the bean juice to mix with the rest of the ingredients if necessary.

  • Step 4: In a small bowl mix the minced dry onion, sugar, molasses, salt, dry mustard, and some of the hot bean water to make about 1 1/2 cups; pour this over the beans and mix gently; if you need more liquid, add more from the bean water.

  • Step 5: Scrape and slit the salt port and put on top of the beans; put cover on bean pot and bake at 300 degrees for about 7 hours or so, adding water if necessary to keep the beans covered.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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