Maple baked beans
6 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounds | Dried Navy pea beans or yellow eye beans (2 cups) |
| 6 | cups | Cold water |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | pounds | Salt pork |
| 1 | medium | Onion, peeled |
| 2 | teaspoons | Dried mustard |
| ¼ | cup | Molasses |
| ⅓ | cup | Brown sugar |
| ⅓ | cup | Maple syrup |
Directions
Wash beans and add cold water. Cover and let soak overnight. Add salt to beans and liquid and simmer gently until tender, about 1 hour. Drain, reserve liquid. Measure 1-¾ cup bean liquid, add water if necessary. Cut a slice from the salt pork and place in the bottom of the bean pot. Add beans; place the onion in center of the beans. Mix mustard, sugar, molasses, and maple syrup with bean liquid; pour over beans. Cut 3 gashes in the remaining salt pork, and place on top of the beans. Rind side up. Cover and bake 5 to 7 hours in a 300oF oven, adding more water as needed. Remove cover from bean pot the last half hour so pork rind will brown and become crisp.
Makes 6 servings.
Submitted By SHARON STEVENS On 12-18-94