{"id":85754,"date":"2019-03-21T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85754"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:15:03","slug":"thursdays-are-for-cooking-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85754","title":{"rendered":"Thursdays Are For Cooking!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baked Beans<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a side dish that is as old as the first colonies in the New World, with beans first being introduced to UK and European kitchens in the 16th<\/sup> century. Nowadays, beans are an ingredient that is everywhere.<\/p>\n

It goes quite nicely with Apple Brown Betty as a dessert. You might want to serve a roast ham or wurst with it, sweet potatoes or baked acorn squash, and fresh biscuits or cornbread. And butter. Lots of sweat, creamy butter!<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 pound of dried Great Northern beans<\/p>\n

\u00bd pound of thick-sliced bacon, cut up<\/p>\n

2 large chopped onions<\/p>\n

3 garlic cloves<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup of molasses<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup of maple syrup (optional – New Englanders use this))<\/p>\n

\u00bd teaspoon of salt<\/p>\n

\u00bc teaspoon of black pepper<\/p>\n

\u00bc teaspoon of dry mustard (optional – Southerners include this)<\/p>\n

2 cups of ketchup<\/p>\n

1 \u00bd cups of packed dark brown sugar<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce<\/p>\n

– Soak the beans overnight in cold water. Simmer them 1 to 2 hours in the soaking water next morning, until tender. NOTE: Do NOT throw out the soaking water.<\/p>\n

– In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels with a slotted spoon; drain, reserving 2 tablespoons drippings. Saute onions in drippings until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the ketchup, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup**, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.<\/p>\n

**Maple syrup is optional. Leave it out if you don\u2019t like the flavor. It’s a regional accent.<\/p>\n

– Preheat the oven to 300F.<\/p>\n

– Drain beans, reserving cooking liquid (water they simmered in); place beans in an ungreased 3-qt. baking dish. Stir in onion mixture and bacon. Cover and bake at 300\u00b0 for 2-1\/2 hours or until beans are tender and reach desired consistency, stirring every 30 minutes. Add reserved cooking liquid as needed to keep them from drying out, but covering the beans with foil or using a baking dish with a lid will work, too.<\/p>\n

And Happy Trails to all of you, too!\u00a0 Try herding cats if you think life is too hard. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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