Boston sandwich of baked beans....

[chi_mama]

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

[mommyem]

:shrug

[Kerlowyn]

Never heard of it, but I bet DH would like it :eat:

[odenata]

It sounds like the British "beans on toast" to me, but I don't know if there's another name in the Boston area.

[DaughterOfKali]

Never heard of a baked beans sandwich on brown bread.

[rupiezum]

:shrug

Never heard of such a thing - at least not as a Boston area thing. I have heard of the British beans-on-toast.

[plantmama]

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:)

[DaughterOfKali]

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.

[hikingmommy]

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-recipes/recipe_detail.php?id=62)

[chi_mama]

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. :scratch DH just suggested that this was a round-the-clock breastfeeding induced dream :eyesroll
Thanks anyways Mamas

[PatchChild]

Doesn't sound local to me, or my mom. Does sound like simple beans on toast, a British thing.

[fek&fuzz]

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.

[medicmama]

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.

[plantmama]

whoa being defensive about New England:p
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?

[DaughterOfKali]

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.

;)

[rupiezum]

whoa being defensive about New England:p
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. :love

[greenebeene]

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.

[franklinmarxmom]

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!

[MAMom]

"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 (http://www.saveur.com/web-exclusive/other/boston-baked-bean-sandwiches-21046704.html)

[MAMom]

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)

[DaughterOfKali]

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

Ok, that recipe sounds yummy. Think I'll make it today (minus the bacon).
:eat:

[rupiezum]

"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 (http://www.saveur.com/web-exclusive/other/boston-baked-bean-sandwiches-21046704.html)

Huh! I wonder what part of Massachusetts?

I do think it's hysterical that people are getting all 'whoa you're being defensive' on this thread. :eyesroll No one is saying the sandwich doesn't exist, just that we've never heard of it. :love

[DaughterOfKali]

I don't think people are getting defensive. Just trying to get a point across. You can't hear the inflection so it can easily be misunderstood.

[rhiasmum]

I have to say I grew up in Boston and have never heard of this sandwich. But now I want one! lol

[DaughterOfKali]

Yeah, I love to put cheddar cheese in beans so that last sandwich recipe sounds sooo good.

[GruppieGirl]

Sounds like breakfast to me.

Growing-up, our traditional Boston Sunday breakfast was really a plate full of leftovers with fried eggs on the side.

Sunday breakfast usually looked like this...

brown bread
beans
fried eggs
apple pie with cheese
bacon
corned beef hash

The baked beans and brown bread were on the same plate and eaten with a fork. Not like a sandwich.

All leftovers from the week were magically transformed into breakfast.

In my family our traditions were really a combo of Irish and English herritage. Much of the Boston area was founded on the traditions of the English and the Irish.

This is my best guess for where the baked bean sandwich on brown bread came from.