Maple baked beans
Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients:
- 1 lb Dried Navy pea beans or yell
- 6 c Cold water
- 1 ts Salt
- 1/4 lb Salt pork
- 1 ea Med. onion peeled
- 2 ts Dried mustard
- 1/4 c Molasses
- 1/3 c Brown sugar
- 1/3 c Maple syrup
Instructions:
Wash beans and add cold water. Cover and let soak overnight. Add salt to beans and liquid and simmer gently until tender about 1 hour. Drain reserve liquid. Measure 1-3/4 cup bean liquid add water if necessary. Cut a slice from the salt pork and place in the bottom of the bean pot. Add beans; place the onion in center of the beans. Mix mustard sugar molasses and maple syrup with bean liquid; pour over beans. Cut 3 gashes in the remaining salt pork and place on top of the beans. Rind side up. Cover and bake 5 to 7 hours in a 300øF oven adding more water as needed. Remove cover from bean pot the last half hour so pork rind will brown and become crisp.



