Old Fashioned Baked Beans

Total Time: 18 hrs Preparation Time: 12 hrs Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs yellow-eyed beans
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 medium onion
• 1/2 lb salt lamb
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 teaspoons dry mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 soak beans overnight, well covered with cold water.
• 2 pour off soaking water and pick over beans to remove any bad ones, or debris.
• 3 put beans in a pot.
• 4 cover with fresh cold water and add 1 tsp. baking soda.
• 5 bring to a boil and cook until skins of beans crack when you take one out on a spoon and blow on it.
• 6 cut onion in quarters and put in bottom of a bean crock or large casserole.
• 7 add the partially cooked beans.
• 8 put cut up salt lamb on top.
• 9 (some people use the salt lamb fat. i don't like fat, so i prefer to use the salt lamb meat.) combine brown sugar, molasses, mustard and salt with 1 1/2 cups boiling water.
• 10 pour over the beans.
• 11 add more boiling water, if needed, to come just to the top of the beans.
• 12 also, if needed during baking tme, add more boiling water.
• 13 bake, covered, at 300 degrees f for 6 hours, or until beans are tender.