Baked Beans Recipe Please

[TonyaW]

I am planning to make baked beans tomorrow and would really appreciate a recipe. I have never made them before.

[kjbrown92]

This is mine.

[eastkygal]

Old-old time East Kentucky Recipe

This is the recipe I use, and it is the old time traditional recipe of eastern Kentucky.

One pound navy beans
1/2 cup molasses
four ounces salt pork (or bacon fat)
salt
pepper
1 cup water
1 small onion
1 tsp. of dry mustard

Cover beans in water and soak overnight. Rinse in fresh water and simmer about two hours. Place beans, salt pork/bacon fat, chopped onion, in a casserole/baking dish. Mix mustard, molasses, salt, and pepper with the water and stir into the beans. Add more water if it isn't covering the beans. Bake in a moderate oven for two hours. Break up pork in the beans before serving.

[funkymamajoy]

We're having baked beans tonight

3 cans of beans (we like to use 3 different kinds at once, tonight its garbanzo, white and black beans)
maple syrup or molasses
bacon
1 onion

Fry the bacon and break into pieces and chop onion, then through it all in the crockpot on low for 4 hours.

(I don't know the proportions of everything. I don't really measure when I cook).

[stilllearning85]

I love Nourishing Tradition's Recipe!

[TonyaW]

Do you have to use white beans or can it be pinto beans? For some reason I always thought baked beans were pinto, and that is what I have on hand.

[eastkygal]

Traditionally, I believe they are white beans. However, I have used kidney beans with good results. With pinto beans, it will be a little different. Not sure how they will hold up in the recipe, but you could try. You could also make soupbeans out of them. I have the recipe on my blog. Let me know if you'd like me to share it here.

[sewchris2642]

Originally Posted by funkymamajoy

We're having baked beans tonight

3 cans of beans (we like to use 3 different kinds at once, tonight its garbanzo, white and black beans)
maple syrup or molasses
bacon
1 onion

Fry the bacon and break into pieces and chop onion, then through it all in the crockpot on low for 4 hours.

(I don't know the proportions of everything. I don't really measure when I cook).

Here's the corrected recipe, Joy.

It's 4 cans (15 ounces) of beans, all one kind or mix and match (I usually use kidney, northern white beans, garbanzo beans, and black beans) , rinsed and drained
1 8 ounce can tomato sauce
1 cup brown sugar
2 T apple cider vinegar
2 T Worcestershire sauce
2 T maple syrup
1/2 t salt
1/2 t liquid smoke
1 t chili powder
1/2 pound bacon, diced
1 onion, diced

saute bacon and onion in deep cast iron skillet. Add all other ingredients. Bake uncovered 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours at 325 degrees. Omit the bacon for vegetarian dish. Or use ham instead of bacon.

Or saute bacon and onion. Put everything into crock pot and cook 6 hours on low. It won't be as thick but it's still good.