Boston Baked Beans

Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients:

2 pounds dry beans, California pea beans preferred
or York State beans
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 pound salt pork
1 medium−size onion
8 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup molasses
2 teaspoons dry mustard
4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper

Soak beans overnight. In morning, parboil them for ten minutes with a
teaspoon of baking soda. Then run cold water through the beans in a
colander or strainer. Dice rind of salt port in one half inch squares.
Put half on bottom of bean pot with the whole peeled onion. Add beans,
and then the rest of the pork on top. Mix other ingredients with hot
water. Pour over beans. Put in 300F oven for six hours.
You can’t let the pot just set in the oven. You’ve got to add water as
necessary to keep the beans moist. And you can’t be impatient and add too much water at a time and flood the beans.

B-man :wink: