Pennsylvania Dutch Home Baked Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups dried navy beans
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 small onion, minced
4 tablespoons molasses
1 teaspoon dry mustard
4 tablespoons catsup
1/4 lb salt pork or 4 slices bacon
water

Preparation

Soak beans over night in cold water.
Drain,and add 1 1/2 quarts fresh water,and the onion and cook slowly until the skins on the beans burst.
Drain and save the liquid.
Mix molasses, sasoning and catsup with 1 cup of the liquid.
Put half the salt pork or bacon in bottom of bean pot or baking dish.
Add the beans and top with remainder of pork or bacon.
Pour molasses mixture over beans, and add more liquid just to cover the beans.
Bake covered for 5 hours in slow oven(300 degrees). Uncover for the last 30 minutes. Add water if necessary while cooking.