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I was raised on these things. In winter, baked beans with hot dogs and toast. Ketchup on the side as the vegetable. I still like that old, filling, Yankee poverty food.

To get it right, probably should use dried Navy Beans, but the canned would work too. A crock pot item? Why not. It should come out firm, not soupy.

Boston Baked Beans

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 16:55 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Try a lump of fatback or streak o lean or maybe that bit of left over ham hock, good eating. I agree firm about the consistency of mortar.

#1 walt moffett on 2015-02-11 19:43 (Reply)

When I was a kid in the 40's my mother cooked her beans in a bean pot. She would have the bakery put the beans in their ovens on Saturday morning and cook all day until late afternoon. I loved baked beans and would eat three helpings as a toddler. In fact one of my oldest memories was sitting in the high chair asking for more beans and my mother asking my dad if I should get a third helping. I think I was two years old. Beans, beans, the musical fruit.

#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-02-11 20:21 (Reply)

Good indeed. Puritan tradition had it that you shouldn't/couldn't cook on the Sabbath day. The good Puritan housewife would put a pot of beans to cook on Saturday night, and have baked beans ready for Sunday dinner.

#3 Gringo on 2015-02-11 21:12 (Reply)

The children's rhyme uses the older synonym "peas" but it's the same thing.

Pease porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old.

#4 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-02-11 22:48 (Reply)

Not to forget the warm slices of brown bread on the side -

#5 claritas on 2015-02-12 10:46 (Reply)

I like mustard with my baked beans. Not sure I could handle ketchup.

My mom made great beans. I love them even today, but my wife doesn't like me afterward.

#6 Bulldog on 2015-02-12 15:27 (Reply)

We always blamed it on the dog.

#6.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-02-12 23:25 (Reply)

My maternal grandfather ate baked bean sandwiches.

We had baked beans every Saturday night with hot dogs and mustard or ketchup. Nowadays, I'm too lazy to make them, and my Illinois farmers' daughter won't eat them, so I usually just open up a jar of B&M. I also prefer knockwurst with them, and lots of mustard. And rye or pumperknickle bread on the side.

Bush's makes a decent canned Boston style bake beans, too. And you can get theirs in single serving cans.

PS. Spam control is now necessary? Was this a delayed New Year's resolution?

#7 bob sykes on 2015-02-16 12:27 (Reply)

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