Old Fashioned Navy Baked Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound white beans
- 1 quart cold water
- 1 small-medium onion, sliced
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 teaspoons cider or white vinegar
- 1/2 tsp prepared mustard
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 cup mild flavour molasses
- 1/2 cup tomato ketchup
- pinch of black pepper
- hot water as needed
- 1/4 pound salt pork, side pork or bacon, sliced
Instructions
Soak beans overnight in water. Cover and heat to boiling. Simmer for 30 minutes. Drain, keeping liquid. Place onion slices in bottom of 6 cup casserole. Mix seasonings, and turn into pot. Add beans, hot liquid or water to cover. Arrange pork slices on top. Cover and bake in slow oven (250 F) for seven hours. At end of 4 hours remove one cup of beans, mash, then stir back into remaining beans carefully. Cover and continue to bake. Add liquid several times to keep beans just covered. One hour before serving remove cover to allow salt pork to brown.
