Baked Beans?

[Pete]

Anybody have a good baked beans recipe?

The kind with ground beef, brown sugar - and other stuff?

I've messed around a few times - with dashes of stuff little mustard, ketchup and other stuff I've grabbed off the shelf. Topped it a few times with bacon. While edible, mine were not top shelf.

[LarryW]

Pete,

FWIW, I tried this and they turned out pretty good. A little too sweet, but there's a lot of room for adjustment in the recipe. (Note from "Allrecipes.com")

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/baked-b...ch/Detail.aspx

May be a good point of departure for your own design. Good luck.

[Dusty]

Boil 4 cups of Navy beans for 15 minutes, take off the heat, drain, rinse, bring to boil and set on simmer for 4 hours.

Mix up a pound of bacon, a 1/2 cup of sweet molasses, 2 diced (sweet white) onions, a 1/2 tspn of dry mustard, a cup of catsup, a 1/2 tspn of black pepper, a clove garlic, a dash of Texas Pete, 1 tbspn KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce, 2 tspn worcestershire, and a 1/2 cup of brown sugar.

Pour the mix over the beans til you just cover them up, put a lid on the dish and bake for 4 hours.

Make sure they don't get dry.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Boil 4 cups of Navy beans for 15 minutes, take off the heat, drain, rinse, bring to boil and set on simmer for 4 hours.

Mix up a pound of bacon, a 1/2 cup of sweet molasses, 2 diced (sweet white) onions, a 1/2 tspn of dry mustard, a cup of catsup, a 1/2 tspn of black pepper, a clove garlic, a dash of Texas Pete, 1 tbspn KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce, 2 tspn worcestershire, and a 1/2 cup of brown sugar.

Pour the mix over the beans til you just cover them up, put a lid on the dish and bake for 4 hours.

Make sure they don't get dry.

This looks really good. The only thing I'd do it sweat the onions and cook the bacon before adding to mix. Remember, 1 cup dried beans makes 3 cups cooked beans!

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

This looks really good. The only thing I'd do it sweat the onions and cook the bacon before adding to mix. Remember, 1 cup dried beans makes 3 cups cooked beans!

Absolutely.

[PSM]

This is from my wife’s Massachusetts grandmother:

2 lbs white beans
1 large yellow onion
1 lb fatback (bacon)
1/2 cup sugar (white or brown)
2/3 cup molasses
2 tsp dry mustard
4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Soak beans overnight. Simmer for 10 minutes (my wife adds 1 tsp of baking soda), drain, rinse. Slice onion and place on bottom of bean pot (3 qt casserole). Add half of fatback, beans, and the rest of the fatback (bacon). Mix sugar, molasses, dry mustard, salt, and pepper and pour over beans. Do not stir. Add water to cover. Bake 300 degrees for 6 hours. Check and stir after 2 hours. Add water if needed but not too much.

Pat

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by PSM

This is from my wife’s Massachusetts grandmother:

2 lbs white beans
1 large yellow onion
1 lb fatback (bacon)
1/2 cup sugar (white or brown)
2/3 cup molasses
2 tsp dry mustard
4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Soak beans overnight. Simmer for 10 minutes (my wife adds 1 tsp of baking soda), drain, rinse. Slice onion and place on bottom of bean pot (3 qt casserole). Add half of fatback, beans, and the rest of the fatback (bacon). Mix sugar, molasses, dry mustard, salt, and pepper and pour over beans. Do not stir. Add water to cover. Bake 300 degrees for 6 hours. Check and stir after 2 hours. Add water if needed but not too much.

Pat

OK my culinary side says cook all the bacon until you have about 1/4 cup of bacon fat. Sweat oninon in that fat. Yum.... grandma's recipe looks great!

Now do something different, add some heat......
Slice up a jalapeno and add it to the beans....

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by PSM

This is from my wife’s Massachusetts grandmother:

2 lbs white beans
1 large yellow onion
1 lb fatback (bacon)
1/2 cup sugar (white or brown)
2/3 cup molasses
2 tsp dry mustard
4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Soak beans overnight. Simmer for 10 minutes (my wife adds 1 tsp of baking soda), drain, rinse. Slice onion and place on bottom of bean pot (3 qt casserole). Add half of fatback, beans, and the rest of the fatback (bacon). Mix sugar, molasses, dry mustard, salt, and pepper and pour over beans. Do not stir. Add water to cover. Bake 300 degrees for 6 hours. Check and stir after 2 hours. Add water if needed but not too much.

Pat

Fatback is not bacon.

Yankees!

TR

[PSM]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Fatback is not bacon.

Yankees!

TR

I know. Bacon is a substitute for those who don't have fatback. I prefer bacon.

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Slice up a jalapeno and add it to the beans.

We live in the SW. The ice-cream has jalapenos out here. This is a mild, sweet, retreat.

Pat

[mark46th]

Pete- This is my 90 year old mother's recipe. I get a lot of compliments on these beans...
32 oz can of Van Camp's Pork and Beans
4 strips of Bacon
1 Onion
1 1/2 cups Brown Sugar
8 oz Tomato Sauce
3 oz vinegar

-Dice the bacon and Chop the onion.(I quarter the onion, put it in my food processor, chopping it into slivers)
-Saute diced bacon and onion until onion is clear.
-Pour beans into a ceramic bean crock or into a flat, glass casserole dish.
-Add bacon, onion, brown sugar and tomato sauce, mix into beans.
-Bake in a 300 degree oven for 3-4 hours.

Beans will be dark and very thick. Instead of bacon you can use salt pork or fatback.

[steve912]

Pete,

I have a recipe for you and it is a little unconventional, but it gets eaten so fast I can barely get any for myself..

Get 1 BIG (They have ginormous sized cans) can of Bush baked beans. (Should be Brown sugar and bacon)
2 Packs of Jimmy Deans Sage sausage
1 heaping tbsp of Garlic
1 whole White onion diced fine
1 tsp of Curry powder
1 tbsp of Brown sugar
2 tbsp of Yellow or spicy mustard
1 tsp salt
1 tsp Black or White pepper

Ok, start off with a cast iron pan or Dutch oven if you have it, and heat up pan your to medium low cooking the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent. Immediately add your 2 packs of sage sausage (Tube shaped) to the pan and cook that up. As that is cooking go ahead and start to heat your beans at medium low. Add the curry powder, brown sugar, and yellow mustard to the beans, and mix. When the sausage is cooked, drain any oil out, and dump all contents in with the beans. Let the stir the ingredients, turn down to low / simmer heat, and let them mesh for a hour or more, then serve. I am not sure how much salt you like, I typically have to add very little because the sausage and beans are already salted. Also, if you are a BBQ kinda guy like myself, and have a smoker, you can also use smoked pulled pork or chopped pork butt (shoulder) in place of the sausage.

Please let me know what you think.. I figure they must be good as picky as my wife and son are, they cant get enough of them lol, and everyone else that eats them demolish the pot everytime.

-Steve

[Pete]

Thanks guys.

I'll try them all this summer - one at a time - to serve as sides for the burger cookouts.

[steve912]

hope you enjoy sir.

[SpikedBuck]

A good "all" bean recipe handed down:

2 pounds Jimmy Dean sausage (hot or mild) (brown in pan and drain grease)
2 onions chopped
4 cloves garlic (or g. poweder)
2 cans green beans (drained/rinsed)
2 cans wax beans (drained/rinsed)
2 cans pinto beans (drained/rinsed)
2 cans kidney beans (drained/rinsed)
2 cans corn (drained/rinsed)
2 cans chic peas (drained/rinsed)
1-2 can Campbell's condensed tomato soup
4-5 stalks celery chopped
4 TBSP mustard (your choice)
4 TBSP chili powder
1.5 cups light or dark brown sugar

Brown sausage in pan; drain grease. Throw it all in the crock pot for 4-6 hours...or put it in the oven (covered) at 350-degrees for about 2-3 hours. Great way to clean out your cabinets of beans that get pushed to the back of the shelf. You can make it hot or not, based on what you put in it.

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by steve912

Pete,

I have a recipe for you and it is a little unconventional, but it gets eaten so fast I can barely get any for myself..

Get 1 BIG (They have ginormous sized cans) can of Bush baked beans. (Should be Brown sugar and bacon)
2 Packs of Jimmy Deans Sage sausage
1 heaping tbsp of Garlic
1 whole White onion diced fine
1 tbsp of Curry powder
1 tbsp of Brown sugar
2 tbsp of Yellow or spicy mustard
1 tsp salt
1 tsp Black or White pepper

Ok, start off with a cast iron pan or Dutch oven if you have it, and heat up pan your to medium low cooking the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent. Immediately add your 2 packs of sage sausage (Tube shaped) to the pan and cook that up. As that is cooking go ahead and start to heat your beans at medium low. Add the curry powder, brown sugar, and yellow mustard to the beans, and mix. When the sausage is cooked, drain any oil out, and dump all contents in with the beans. Let the stir the ingredients, turn down to low / simmer heat, and let them mesh for a hour or more, then serve. I am not sure how much salt you like, I typically have to add very little because the sausage and beans are already salted. Also, if you are a BBQ kinda guy like myself, and have a smoker, you can also use smoked pulled pork or chopped pork butt (shoulder) in place of the sausage.

Please let me know what you think.. I figure they must be good as picky as my wife and son are, they cant get enough of them lol, and everyone else that eats them demolish the pot everytime.

-Steve

Sounds really good and I will try it next time I prepare baked beans,just one question why the curry?...........

Big Teddy