Baked Beans Recipies
I'm tired of can baked beans, so looking for some baked beans recipes, preferably crock pot recipes. Thank you
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fwed wrote:
Okay, folks, here it is. But, before I begin I must explain that I'm from northern Maine, so these are northern Maine beans. They're not even close to being Boston beans, or any other kind. These are about as simple as they can be. No tomato anything, no onion, no bacon. I suppose they're that way because of the hardscrabble world from which they arose. Anyway. ...
Pick over 2 cups of dried beans to remove any badly damaged beans and small stones. If you want to use a pressure cooker, parboil the beans for 3 minutes, then let them soak for an hour. Put the beans and water in the pressue cooker along with 1/4 c of molasses, 1/4 c of canola oil, 1 tbsp of salt, and 1/2 tsp of dry mustard. Cook at 15# for 25 minutes (at an off and on jiggle--not steady), then cool slowly (cooling fast will make the beans mushy).
For a slow cooker, take the 2 cups of picked beans, bring to a boil, and then let them soak overnight. In the morning, put the beans and the water in the crock pot along with the same above (molasses, oil, salt and mustard), and stir well. Bake on high all day, stirring ocassionally and making sure they stay covered with water.
If you must eat canned beans, make the B&M beans made in Portland, Maine.
Enjoy.
fred.
Ditto on the B&M! Only baked beans allowed in our house. But we DO add the mustard and molasses (among other non-tomato things!)
