Bean Hole Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. navy or pea beans
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. molasses
2 chunks of bacon
pepper

Preparation

Soak beans overnight, then bring to boil and cook until skins burst when spooned.
Pour off liquid and save.
Drop a chunk of salt pork into Dutch oven, pour in beans.
Add salt, molasses and some fresh ground pepper to bean water.
Pour over beans to cover and add another chunk of pork on top.
Put on lid and set in fire pit, using hole in ground method.