Aunt Jeanie's Pork and Beans
"This is a from scratch recipe using dried beans. I found it handwritten on a very yellowed piece of paper. My husband thinks it's delicious!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 lb dry white bean, soaked and rinsed
- 10 cups water
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 bay leaf
- 1⁄4 cup molasses
- 1⁄3 cup catsup
- 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 4 ounces salt pork (I use bacon or ham)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
directions
- Combine the soaked beans, water, oil, salt and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, then simmer until beans are tender. Add more hot water if necessary.
- Drain, reserving 1 cup liquid.
- Combine the 1 cup liquid with the remaining ingredients in a small bowl.
- Pour over the beans in a casserole dish.
- Cover and bake at 300 degrees F for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, adding more liquid if necessary so beans don't dry out.
- This gets better with time-leftovers are great!
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Reviews
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Very nice but so sweet!! Next time I will leave out the brown sugar and most of the molasses. -
These are excellent. FAR better than a can of pork and beans. Thank you. -
Food for the soul from a couple of generations back ... and the leftovers are not simply "great", they're splendid - even cold. ("Simmer 'til tender" doesn't quite work for me - I would have liked an approximate time.) Thank you Aunt Jeannie, wherever you are!
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I'm a stay at home mom with 3 adorable children-an 8 year old daredevil son, a 5 1/2 year old princess and a wild little 2 year old girl! I love to cook, and like having my little helpers in the kitchen!
I usually love recipes that are completely from scratch (I still love them actually) but right now my focus is on having any kind of food ready by mealtime! It's a little crazy here lately. Every summer we have a huge organic garden, apple orchard and raspberry and blueberry patches, along with a woods full of wild foods waiting for me to learn what they are so I can collect them. I'm learning about wild mushrooms first, so if anyone has any tips, let me know. We also eat wild venison which my husband and I hunt ourselves. It's our favorite meat, since it's lean, organic and cheap! Some of my hobbies are: hiking, biking, rock climbing, gardening, playing in the water with my kids, or just swinging in the hammock with a good book. I go stir crazy if I spend too much time inside.
