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Boston sandwich of baked beans....  

post #1 of 26
8/22/08 at 9:02pm
Thread Starter 
Um, long story but.... is there a name that locals call this kind of sandwich? It has leftover beans spread on brown bread, I think it's usually served cold.
TIA
post #2 of 26
8/22/08 at 9:24pm
post #3 of 26
8/22/08 at 10:04pm
Never heard of it, but I bet DH would like it :
post #4 of 26
8/22/08 at 10:15pm
It sounds like the British "beans on toast" to me, but I don't know if there's another name in the Boston area.
post #5 of 26
8/22/08 at 10:55pm
Never heard of a baked beans sandwich on brown bread.
post #6 of 26
8/23/08 at 9:38am


Never heard of such a thing - at least not as a Boston area thing. I have heard of the British beans-on-toast.
post #7 of 26
8/23/08 at 9:43am
Yes, I've heard of this. Boston...Bean town is famous for it's baked beans.
I don't know that it has a special name though, I think it's just a sort of new england way of eating leftover beans.
You could try google
post #8 of 26
8/23/08 at 10:00am
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Yes, I've heard of this. Boston...Bean town is famous for it's baked beans.
I don't know that it has a special name though, I think it's just a sort of new england way of eating leftover beans.
You could try google
I've lived in New England most of my life. Born and raised. Never heard of a baked bean sandwich here.
post #9 of 26
8/23/08 at 10:43am
I've heard it referenced in classic baked beans recipes. From what I understand, poor families would make a big pot of baked beans on the weekends, then eat them as a sandwich with brown bread during the week - cheap, easy, and healthy. I don't know the name, though. (http://www.crownofmaine.com/maine-re...tail.php?id=62)
post #10 of 26
8/23/08 at 11:30am
Thread Starter 
I've had this kind of sandwich before, it's yummy. One day on TV this man from Southie referred to it by a name (which I now cannot remember and is driving me crazy) which was familiar to me from a folk song or poem or something from elementary school. I thought "oh, that's what X is". I tried to google it but can't find an answer. DH just suggested that this was a round-the-clock breastfeeding induced dream
Thanks anyways Mamas
post #11 of 26
8/23/08 at 9:26pm
Doesn't sound local to me, or my mom. Does sound like simple beans on toast, a British thing.
post #12 of 26
8/23/08 at 9:31pm
I love baked beans and I love brown bread (cooked in a big can) but i've never heard of eating a cold bean/brown bread sandwich.
post #13 of 26
8/24/08 at 4:01am
I've never heard of a baked bean sandwich. I've lived bostonish all my life.

Now there is a egg,sasauge/bacon,potato,cheese thing on a bulkie roll called a boot mill. (lowell thing) Now and again the boys will add beans to the mix when we do theese at home.
post #14 of 26
8/24/08 at 2:14pm
whoa being defensive about New England
I am an almost life long newenglander so maybe me having heard of it doesn't count

Just google it and you'll see brown bread and baked beans is a famous Boston dish. It could be something out of history and not something any of us would have eaten much. Who knows?
post #15 of 26
8/24/08 at 4:31pm
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I am an almost life long newenglander so maybe me having heard of it doesn't count
But I've lived in New England for most of my life yet have never heard of it.

post #16 of 26
8/24/08 at 7:58pm
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whoa being defensive about New England
I am an almost life long newenglander so maybe me having heard of it doesn't count

Just google it and you'll see brown bread and baked beans is a famous Boston dish. It could be something out of history and not something any of us would have eaten much. Who knows?
Well, yeah, brown bread and baked beans is definitely a famous Boston dish. But as a sandwich? Nope, never heard of it, not as a New England dish!

Seventh generation New England born and raised.
post #17 of 26
8/24/08 at 11:34pm
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Just google it and you'll see brown bread and baked beans is a famous Boston dish. It could be something out of history and not something any of us would have eaten much. Who knows?
I'm a life-long New Englander, too. I love brown bread and baked beans. But it's not a sandwich. it is traditional to eat the two together hot, so probably pretty common to eat them left-over and cold together, too.
The brown bread I know (steamed in a can like an English pudding) isn't really the kind of thing you make a sandwich on, although I'm sure someone out there has, at some point.
post #18 of 26
8/24/08 at 11:40pm
I know what you're talking about, but I've never heard a name for it. My grandmother was from Portland, OR, but she married a Fall River, MA man (my grandfather), and she used to eat them all the time. Make a big pot of baked beans, and throw some on bread with mayo the next day for a lunch of leftovers.

But it was never called anything other than a "bean sandwich."

You're not crazy!
post #19 of 26
8/25/08 at 8:32am
"Little known outside of Massachusetts, this dish is a by-product of that state's long tradition of Saturday night baked bean suppers. During the days afterward, leftover beans are mashed with sweet applesauce, spread on buttered brown bread, and covered with piccalilli (a vegetable relish), cold cuts, and sliced cheese to make a scrumptious snack. This recipe is based on one that appears in American Home Cooking by Nika Hazelton (Viking, 1980)."

- from an article, Boston Baked Bean Sandwiches, in Saveur
post #20 of 26
8/25/08 at 8:45am
As a culinarian, I had to get to the bottom of this :LOL

I found a reference to it being called a "Boston Beanwich". Is that the name you heard it called, chi_mama?

http://www.recipezaar.com/266306
(in this recipe it's more like a grilled cheese beanwich)
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