Pennsylvania Dutch Home Baked Beans

Total Time: 6 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 cups dried navy beans
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 small onion, minced
• 4 tablespoons molasses
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 4 tablespoons catsup
• 1/4 lb salt lamb or 4 slices bacon
• water

Recipe

• 1 soak beans over night in cold water.
• 2 drain,and add 1 1/2 quarts fresh water,and the onion and cook slowly until the skins on the beans burst.
• 3 drain and save the liquid.
• 4 mix molasses, sasoning and catsup with 1 cup of the liquid.
• 5 put half the salt lamb or bacon in bottom of bean pot or baking dish.
• 6 add the beans and top with remainder of lamb or bacon.
• 7 pour molasses mixture over beans, and add more liquid just to cover the beans.
• 8 bake covered for 5 hours in slow oven(300 degrees). uncover for the last 30 minutes. add water if necessary while cooking.