Maple mustard baked beans
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounds | Navy beans |
| 1 | large | Onion, cut in half |
| 5 | Whole cloves | |
| 1 | large | Onion, whole |
| ⅓ | cup | Dark brown sugar |
| ½ | cup | Maple syrup, *Amber Grade |
| Plus to taste | ||
| ⅓ | cup | Prepared coarse mustard |
| Plus to taste | ||
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt, or minus to taste Fresh grd. pepper, to taste |
Directions
Wash and pick over beans to remove small stones. In a large saucepan, place the beans with the onion halves and pour in enough water to cover them by 2-inches. Bring to a boil; boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.
Drain and discard the onion. Fill the pan with an equal amount of fresh hot water and bring to a boil. Simmer the beans for approximately 20-30 minutes, or until partially done. Drain, but reserve cooking water.
In the meantime preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Stick the cloves in the whole onion and place it in a bean pot. Place the beans on top.
In a small bowl, combine sugar, maple syrup, mustard, salt, and pepper, and stir in ½ cup of bean cooking water. Pour this mixture over the beans, cover the pot, and place in the middle of the oven.
Bake for about 2½ hours. Uncover the pot and bake another half hour to brown the top. Check that the beans do not cook dry. Taste the beans, add a little more syrup and/or mustard if necessary.
From the recipe files of suzy@...