Boston Baked Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 qt. bean pot
2 lb. pea beans
1/2 lb. salt pork
8 Tbsp. sugar
2/3 c. molasses
2 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp. pepper

Preparation

Soak beans overnight.
In the morning parboil them for 10 minutes with a teaspoon of baking soda.
Then run cold water through the beans in a colander.
Dice rind of salt pork in 1-inch squares.
Cut in half.
Put half in bean pot (bottom).
Put beans in pot.
Put rest of pork on top.
Mix other ingredients with hot water.
Pour over beans.
Put in 300\u00b0 oven for 6 hours. Add more water when needed.
Uncover for last half hour.