Home Baked Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. Soldier beans
1/4 lb. lean salt pork
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 medium onion
1/4 c. cider vinegar
1/2 c. light molasses
1/2 tsp. ginger (dry)

Preparation

Wash beans thoroughly.
In a large kettle (night before) cover beans with fresh water and soak overnight.
In the morning, parboil beans in new fresh water with a little salt.
Cook beans on medium heat until soft and whole but not squashy (about 1 hour).
Now you are ready to put beans into baking pot as follows: Cut up onion in small pieces and put in bottom of pot along with the salt pork.
Add the parboiled beans.
(Do not throw away the water used to cook beans.)
Add mustard, ginger, sugar, molasses, vinegar and 1 teaspoon of black pepper.
(No more salt.)
Fill bean pot with par boiling water (water used to cook beans).
Cover beans.
(Save any remaining water to be used during cooking.) Bake in a 300\u00b0 oven all day.
If in the oven by 10:00 A.M. they should be ready by 5:00 P.M.
Check beans about twice a day, if dry add more water.
Serve with favorite salad and hot dogs.