boston baked beans

How To Make boston baked beans

• Step 1
  Empty beans in a bowl. Pick out any beans that look bad. Cover with water and soak them overnight.
• Step 2
  Next morning dump beans and water into a pot. You can rinse and add more water to beans if you like. Heat beans with the baking soda added to the pot. Reserve the liquid.
• Step 3
  Mix 2 cups of reserve liquid with brown sugar, dry mustard and molasses. Set aside.
• Step 4
  I use a small crock pot. I layer onions slices, beans and salt pork or bacon ends. Pour reserve liquid and continue to layer till nearly full.
• Step 5
  Cover crock with foil and put a cookie sheet on rack below to catch any spills. I add a little extra molasses and brown sugar after an hour or two of cooking. Check beans so they do not dry out and burn. If needed I add some reserve liquid not used in the process.
• Step 6
  Oven should be low 250 degrees to 275 degrees max. Cook till beans are tender 5 hours or more.
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