Baked Beans - American Recipe

Baked Beans

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●●○○○

🍳 Equipment: Baking-dish or bean-pot, Covered saucepan, Tablespoon, Knife

Simple baked beans as prepared in the American home kitchen of the 1920s.

Ingredients

• ½ pound dried beans
• ¼ pound salt pork
• ½ tablespoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Method

1. Put — the beans in the baking-dish or pot, cover them with cold water, and let stand overnight.
2. Pour — off the water, wash the beans in fresh water, and put them in the saucepan.
3. Cover — the beans with water, place the saucepan on the stove, and let the water come slowly to a boil.
4. Cover — the saucepan, reduce the heat, and let the beans simmer for two hours.
5. Pour — the beans, with the liquid in which they boiled, into the baking-dish or bean-pot, and add the salt and sugar.
6. Scald — the pork with boiling water, scrape its entire surface with a knife, and slash the rind deeply several times in each direction.
7. Press — the pork down into the beans with the rind side up.
8. Cover — the dish or pot, put it into a slow oven, and bake three hours, adding a little hot water if necessary to keep the beans moist.

Tags: pork, bean, sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

If desired, two tablespoons of molasses may be added with the salt and sugar. This will make the beans browner and sweeter.