Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

1 pound pea or navy beans
2 teaspoons dry mustard
pepper
1 teaspoon salt
3 onions, quartered
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2 T sweet pickle juice or 2 T vinegar with 1/8 tsp each cinnamon and cloves
1/4 pound salt pork

Instructions

Pick over beans and wash. Cover with 3 cups of water and soak 8 hours or overnight. Then add 2 cups of water, mustard, 1/4 tsp. pepper and next 5 ingredients. Boil, covered, about 1 hour or until skins start to wrinkle. Start heating oven to 250 degrees F. Cut salt pork into cubes and place beans over pork in beanpot. Sprinkle with pepper and bake 6-8 hours or until tender. When beans are two-thirds baked, add about 3/4 cup water or just enough to cover. Uncover last half hour. VARIATION: All of the cooking can be accomplished in an electric cooker, for those who don't want to leave an oven unattended all day. This is how my mom generally does it.