Maine Baked Beans Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Rinse beans and pick over to make sure there are no stones. Place in large bowl and cover with water (at least 1" above beans). Let sit overnight.
• 2. In morning, parboil the beans until the skins crack when blown upon (maybe 10-15 minutes).
• 3. Cut onion into quarters and place in bottom of bean pot or a 4 quart casserole. Drain beans and pour over onion. Slice salt pork and lay on top of beans.
• 4. Mix sugar, molasses, mustard, pepper and salt with 2 cups of boiling water. Pour over pork and beans. If necessary, add more boiling water until beans are covered.
• 5. Bake, covered at 300 deg F for 6 hours, adding more boiling water as the beans cook (if necessary.
• 6. Serve with steamed brown bread or corn bread. NOTE: Beans can be cooked in crockpot but will be a bit more soupy. Not a bad thing. Just different. BEANS: Jacob's cattle beans are the best and I usually order 10# at a time online. They're worth it. May also use kidney beans, red beans or navy beans (my least favorite).

Steps:

• Pick over the beans and soak them overnight in cold water.
• In the morning drain and then boil them in fresh water until the skins crack when blown upon.
• Quarter the onion and place in the bottom of Crock pot.
• Add the beans.
• Cut through the rind of the salt pork and place pork on top of the beans.
• Mix the sugar, molasses, mustard and pepper with 1 pint of boiling water.
• Pour this over the beans. Add more water to almost cover beans.
• Cook on low for 8-10 hours or if pressed for time, turn on high for a while and then turn down to low until done.

Steps:

• Pick over the beans and wash in cold water; rinse.
• Cover with cold water and let soak over night.
• Drain.
• In the morning, put in a pan and cover with water and parboil till the skins crack and roll up when you blow on them (30-35 minutes or so).
• Place onion in the bottom of the bean pot and add the beans saving some of the bean juice to mix with the rest of the ingredients.
• Mix the minced onion, sugar, molasses, salt, dry mustard, and some of the hot bean juice to make about 1 1/2 cups.
• Pour this over the beans and gently mix.
• If you need more juice, add more of the juice from the pan.
• Scrape and slit the salt pork and put on top of the beans.
• Put the cover on the beanpot and bake at 300 degrees for about 7 hours.
• Add water if necessary to keep the beans covered.