Recipe#26328

Title: Boston Baked Beans 02

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BOSTON BAKED BEANS
 
1 pound pea or navy beans
2 tsp. dry mustard
pepper
1 tsp. salt 
3 onions, quartered
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2 T sweet pickle juice or 2 T vinegar with 1/8 tsp each cinnamon and cloves
1/4 pound salt pork
 
Pick over beans and wash.  Cover with 3 cups of water and soak 8
hours or overnight.  Then add 2 cups of water, mustard, 1/4 tsp.
pepper and next 5 ingredients.  Boil, covered, about 1 hour or
until skins start to wrinkle.  Start heating oven to 250 degrees
F.  Cut salt pork into cubes and place beans over pork in beanpot.
Sprinkle with pepper and bake 6-8 hours or until tender.  When
beans are two-thirds baked, add about 3/4 cup water or just enough
to cover.  Uncover last half hour.
 
VARIATION:  All of the cooking can be accomplished in an electric
cooker, for those who don't want to leave an oven unattended all
day.  This is how my mom generally does it.