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Categories: Vegetables - Vegetarian - Side Dish - Boiled - Baked
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Ingredients

Ingredient Amount Notes
State Of Maine Dry Beans 2 lbs  
Salt Pork ½ lb  
Sugar ¼ cup  
Molasses ⅔ cup  
Dry Mustard 2 tsp  
Pepper ½ tsp  
Salt 1½ Tbsp  
Onion 1 large Quartered
Maple Syrup 1 cup Optional - Substitute for Molasses if making variant
Catsup 1 cup Optional - for Variation
Vinegar 1 Tbsp Optional - for Variation

Method

  1. Pick over beans
  2. Soak overnight in cold water
  3. In the morning parboil beans until skins cracks when blown on
  4. Preheat oven to 300 °F
  5. Quarter Onion and put into bottom of a new pot
  6. Add beans to pot on top of onion
  7. Put Salt pork on top of beans
  8. Boil 1 pint of water in a separate container
  9. Mix togther Sugar, Dry Mustard, Pepper and Salt with boiling water
  10. Add Molasses or Maple Syrup to Sugar Mixture
  11. Cut ½ inch through rind of pork
  12. Pour sugar mixture on top of Salt Pork
  13. If making variation add Catsup and Vinegar to top of pot
  14. Cover with boiling water
  15. Bake 6 hours or more
  16. Add more water as Beans cook

Notes From Gran

  • Serve with steamed brown bread or hot Johnny cakes

Modern Notes

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