Okay, so I have been making soups on the weekend, but this weekend I was going to be in town for the whole thing, so I wanted to make something a little more time consuming. My Great-Grandmother's baked beans bake for 8 hours. That's pretty time consuming. Really I would run out and do something for a couple of hours, run home, add water, run out, run home, add water...I have a really hard time sitting down and doing nothing. They taste amazing! And now I get to have baked bean sandwiches. Yum. The recipe is in the comments if you have a Saturday you want to spend adding water to baking beans. It's actually a great way to humidify an apartment!
04 February 2008
I swear it tastes better than it looks - Take 2
I swear I never thought I would do a Part II on this one! Here's the original though. Apparently I have a thing for brown food this winter.
Okay, so I have been making soups on the weekend, but this weekend I was going to be in town for the whole thing, so I wanted to make something a little more time consuming. My Great-Grandmother's baked beans bake for 8 hours. That's pretty time consuming. Really I would run out and do something for a couple of hours, run home, add water, run out, run home, add water...I have a really hard time sitting down and doing nothing. They taste amazing! And now I get to have baked bean sandwiches. Yum. The recipe is in the comments if you have a Saturday you want to spend adding water to baking beans. It's actually a great way to humidify an apartment!
Okay, so I have been making soups on the weekend, but this weekend I was going to be in town for the whole thing, so I wanted to make something a little more time consuming. My Great-Grandmother's baked beans bake for 8 hours. That's pretty time consuming. Really I would run out and do something for a couple of hours, run home, add water, run out, run home, add water...I have a really hard time sitting down and doing nothing. They taste amazing! And now I get to have baked bean sandwiches. Yum. The recipe is in the comments if you have a Saturday you want to spend adding water to baking beans. It's actually a great way to humidify an apartment!
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Gramma Struthers Baked Beans
Soak 2 pounds soldier or yellow eye beans overnight. (I ended up using Great Northern.)
Parboil the beans for about 10 minutes in the morning. Put in roaster and add:
2tspn dry mustard
2 c light brown sugar
1T salt
1/4 to 1/2 pound salt pork or thick cut bacon
Cover with water. Bake 8 hours at 325 checking water and stirring periodically. Around hour 7-7.25 I stop adding water.
Mmmm... I love baked beans. Realistically, I will never spend a whole day on a recipe, so I'll just have to dream about them.
Spark, they taste sooooo good. After a few days of beans though, my intestines need something else. :)
Mm, I've thought about doing beans in my slow cooker. Beans are definitely a good all-round food. And bacon too!
I've never heard of baked bean sandwiches. But I suppose it isn't that different than bean burritos.
Boston is known for its baked beans - is this a local recipe? Or was your grandmother from somewhere else?
Aurora, beans would be perfect for a slow cooker!
Danielle, it's funny you should ask. That grandmother was from VT. My Mom just told me (and I just googled it to confirm), but soldier and yellow eye beans were both bean crops from Maine and are apparently heirloom plants now. I guess it's a pretty good New England recipe and it explains why I couldn't find them in the grocery store!
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