Title of Recipe: Boston Baked Beans
Ingredients:
1 qt pea beans
¾ lb fat salt pork
1 tbsp salt
3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp – 1 cup molasses
½ tsp mustard
Instructions:
Soak beans overnight in cold water. Drain cover w/ fresh water. Cook until skins will burst (determine by taking a few on the tip of a spoon and blowing on them). Drain. Scald pork and scrape, remove ¼” slice and put in bottom of pot. Cut remaining every ½”. Put beans in pot, bury pork. Mix salt, molasses and sugar. Add 1 cup boiling water. Pour over beans. Add boiling water to cover beans. Cover and bake 6-8 hours in slow oven. Uncover last hour. Add water as needed.
