baked beans

2016-04-21

Baked beans are most popular in the Southern US of A, where they used to have all those sugar cane plantations. They are most often made with white navy beans.

Canned baked beans are way too sweet to my liking.

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 4 servings:

2 cups Navy beans
OR 2 16-oz. cans canned pork & beans
½ lb. bacon, sliced
1 medium onion, chopped fine
optional: bell pepper / hot pepper???
sweetener: up to ½ cup brown sugar/ maple syrup and/ or molasses (to taste)
mustard
1/4 cup ketchup / tomato sauce
1 tbsp. Worcestershire
or BBQ sauce
S&P

Pic1: baked beans

Directions

Cook the beans or open the cans. :-)
Cut the bacon in 2” pieces.
Half-fry the bacon to render some of the fat. Remove the bacon.
Keep enough fat to cook the onions, discard the excess.
Sauté the onion and peppers in the bacon fat until soft.
Stir in the ketchup, sweetener, mustard and Worcestershire / BBQ sauce.
Simmer 5 minutes.
Alternate layers of beans and bacon in a baking dish.
Pour the sauce over the beans.
Lay out some bacon strips on top.
Bake at 300 ºF for 60 minutes.
Serve and enjoy.

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more and avemariasongs.org

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more
and avemariasongs.org