Recipe#136

Title: Baked Beans 11

From: jdunsky@aol.com (Jdunsky) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Boston Baked Beans 
 Date: 27 May 1998 05:49:08 -0600 
 Message-ID: <1998052612344700.IAA03709@ladder03.news.aol.com> 

2 cups (1/2 L) navy beans, small white beans, or Great Northern beans
 1 tsp. (5 ml) salt
 1/4 pound (115 g) salt pork
 2 tsp. (10 ml) dry mustard
 5 tbsp. (75 ml) dark-brown sugar
 4 tbsp. (60 ml) molasses
 Wash the beans. Soak overnight. Add salt, stir and drain, reserving
 the liquid.  Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Cut
 off a third of the salt pork and place the piece on the bottom of
 a bean pot. Add the beans to the pot.  blend the mustard, brown
 sugar, and molasses with the reserved bean liquid and pour over
 the beans. Cut several gashes in the remaining piece of salt pork
 and place on top of the beans. Cover and bake for about 6 hours,
 adding water as needed (do not let it dry out). Uncover for the
 final hour of cooking so the pork will become brown and crisp.
 Taste and correct seasoning.
 My favorite variations:
  
 2 cup Jacobs Cattle Beans  
 Lots of Garlic 1-2 tbsp. powder
 1 pint pure Maple syrup
 1/4 pound salt pork
 or
 2 cup Jacob's Cattle Beans, or any you like
 1 cup Lloyd's barbecue sauce
 1 tbsp.  Colman's mustard
 1 tbsp. Garlic powder
 1/2 cup maple syrup or molasses
 1/4 pound salt pork or maple flavored bacon
  
 Prepare same as Boston Baked Beans