Tim'S Baked Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 qt. yellow eye beans
1/2 lb. salt pork
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 c. maple syrup
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
2 Tbsp. prepared mustard
1 medium onion, peeled

Preparation

Wash and pick over beans; cover with cold water.
Add soda and soak overnight.
Next morning, rinse beans and parboil in fresh water until skins wrinkle.
Drain off bean water and retain. Place whole onion in bottom of bean pot.
Add beans, maple syrup and mustard.
Score pork and place on top of beans and add bean water; cover.
Cook in slow oven of 325\u00b0 for 8 hours.
Check periodically and add bean water as needed.
For the last hour, cook uncovered, so pork will brown.