Old-Fashioned Beans

Description

Old-fashioned flavor and worth the wait!

Ingredients

• 1 lb pea or navy beans
• water
• 2 tsp dry mustard
• dash of pepper
• 1 tbsp salt
• 3 onions, chopped
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup molasses
• 2 tbsp sweet pickle juice
• ¼ lb salt pork

Procedures

1. Wash and clean the beans.
2. Cover with water and soak overnight.
3. Drain.
4. Add 2 cups water, mustard, pepper, salt, onions, brown sugar, molasses, pickle juice.
5. Boil, covered, for about 1½ hours. (Beans should be wrinkled.)
6. Heat oven to 250 °F.
7. Cut salt pork into ½” cubes.
8. Place in 2-quart bean pot.
9. Cover with hot beans and their liquid.
10. Sprinkle with pepper.
11. Bake 8 hrs. covered, until very tender.
12. When beans are baking for 6 hrs. add about ¾ cup water or just enough to cover.
13. Uncover the pot the last ½ hour.