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Old-Fashioned Baked Beans

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Grains Digest, Mar95, Fatfree 1 Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 lb Great northern or small
2 lb Mixed beans – Great
Northerns, white beans
Romans, and random mix.
1 ts Salt (omitted)
1 ts Dry mustard
2 ts Dry mustard
1/2 ts Fresh ground black pepper
1/2 ts Black pepper from a bottle
1 ds Hot sauce
1 ts (heaping) hot chili
Condiment
1/2 c Chopped onion
1 1/2 c Coarse chopped onion
1/4 c Molasses or honey
1/2 c (scant) honey
1/4 c Brown sugar
8 ts White sugar
1/4 c Cider vinegar
1/2 c White vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

Presoak beans.  Drain.  Combine dry ingredients and mix with beans; stir in
other ingredients.  Pour into 1 1/2 qt. or 2 qt. baking dish or bean pot.
[Obviously, if you double the recipe like I did, you'll need a bigger pot
:-]  Pour in boiling water to cover.  Cover.  Bake at 300 degrees for 6
hours; add a bit of boiling water if needed.  (Crock-pot method: cook on
low 8-10 hours.)
Comments:  I just dumped everything on top of the beans and stirred them;
then covered them with hot tap water.  They took a lot longer than 10 hours
to cook, but that might have been due to too-low heat on the crockpot.
(Also, reportedly vinegar and other acid substances need to be added at the
end of cooking else they'll make the beans tough.)
These beans were *really* good.  The caramelized onions were even better.
I've enjoyed the beans plain, with barbecue sauce, and with spinach and
corn added.
Source: From the 'Bean Bonanza' flyer I got in my grocery store.
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Digest [Volume 16 Issue 9] Mar. 13, 1995.
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