Boston Baked Beans
Instructions:
- 2 pounds dry beans, California pea beans preferred or York State beans
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pound salt pork
- 1 medium−size onion
- 8 tablespoons sugar
- 2/3 cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons dry mustard
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Soak beans overnight.
- In morning, parboil them for ten minutes with a teaspoon of baking soda.
- Then run cold water through the beans in a colander or strainer.
- Dice rind of salt port in one half inch squares.
- Put half on bottom of bean pot with the whole peeled onion.
- Add beans, and then the rest of the pork on top.
- Mix other ingredients with hot water. Pour over beans.
- Put in 300F oven for six hours.
- You can\'t let the pot just set in the oven.
- You\'ve got to add water as necessary to keep the beans moist.
- And you can\'t be impatient and add too much water at a time and flood the beans.