Title: MAPLE BAKED BEANS
Categories: Main dish, Vegetables
Yield: 6 servings
1 lb Dried Navy pea beans or yell
6 c Cold water
1 ts Salt
1/4 lb Salt pork
1 ea Med. onion, peeled
2 ts Dried mustard
1/4 c Molasses
1/3 c Brown sugar
1/3 c Maple syrup
Wash beans and add cold water. Cover and let soak
overnight. Add salt to beans and liquid and simmer
gently until tender, about 1 hour. Drain, reserve
liquid. Measure 1-3/4 cup bean liquid, add water if
necessary. Cut a slice from the salt pork and place in
the bottom of the bean pot. Add beans; place the
onion in center of the beans. Mix mustard, sugar,
molasses, and maple syrup with bean liquid; pour over
beans. Cut 3 gashes in the remaining salt pork, and
place on top of the beans. Rind side up.
Cover and bake 5 to 7 hours in a 300°F oven, adding
more water as needed. Remove cover from bean pot the
last half hour so pork rind will brown and become
crisp.
