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

[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.