Jolina G.

Mendez

PE-23

Baking Beans

Louise Dickinson Rich

Ingredients:

2 cups dry beans

Salt pork

Rind

sugar cup

cup molasses

Onion

Dry mustard

Hot water

Instructions:

1. Soak beans: Soak overnight and get them on to boil early in the morning. Place beans in a
bottom of the pan or pot with tight-fitting cover.

2. Mix salt pork, rind slashed, sugar, molasses, onion and dry mustard: Mix a six by eight-inch
square of salt pork with the rind slashed every quarter of an inch, a quarter of a cup of sugar, half
a cup of molasses, a large onion chopped fairly fine, and heaping teaspoonful of dry mustard.

3. Bake,then check: Cover tightly and put into a medium oven-about 350 degrees is right. They
should be in the oven by half past noon in the morning at the latest, and they should stay there
until supper time, which in our family is at six.

Now to the baked beans. Small white dried beans that have been baked, usually with salt
pork, brown sugar or molasses, and seasonings.

By baking beans, here the procedure how to do it. First, you should get 2 cups of dry
beans. Soak beans overnight and get them on to boil early in the morning. Second, when the
skins curl off when you blow them, theyre boiled long enough. Place beans in a bottom of the
pan or pot with tight-fitting cover. Third, mix a six by eight-inch square of salt pork with the rind
slashed every quarter of an inch, a quarter of a cup of sugar, half a cup of molasses, a large onion
chopped fairly fine, and heaping teaspoonful of dry mustard. And last, Cover tightly and put into
a medium oven-about 350 degrees is right. They should be in the oven by half past noon in the
morning at the latest, and they should stay there until supper time, which in our family is at six.

Humble baked beans, a staple of our diet growing up, are in fact one of the healthiest foods
you can pick up in the supermarket. Eating them as part of a balanced diet can help reduce the
risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.