Recipe#134

Title: Baked Beans 10

From: jb jbxyz@ma.ultranet.com 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Dorothy Belding's Maine Baked Beans 
 Date: 31 May 1998 22:08:34 -0600 
 Message-ID: <356C30E0.32DD@ma.ultranet.com> 

2 lbs dried beans
 1/2 lb salt pork
 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
 3 Tbsp brown sugar
 1/3 cup molasses
 1/3 cup maple syrup
 2 tsp dry mustard
 1/2 tsp pepper
 1 1/2 tsp salt
 1 medium onion, quartered (optional)
 Pick over beans for miscellaneous objects, then soak them overnight
 in cold water.  The next day, parboil them (JB:  in fresh water)
 until their skins crack when blown upon.  Put the onion in the
 bottom of a bean pot.  Add the beans.  Cut through the salt pork
 rind to the depth of one inch, and place it on top of the beans.
 Mix the remaining ingredients with 1 pint of boiling water, and
 pour this over the beans and salt pork.  Add more boiling water if
 necessary to cover the contents.  Bake 6 (plus) hours at 300F,
 adding more water as necessary as the beans cook.