Maine Baked Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lbs dried soldier beans
1/2 lb salt pork
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
2 teaspoons dry mustard
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 medium onion

Preparation

Pick over the beans and soak them overnight in cold water.
In the morning drain and then boil them in fresh water until the skins crack when blown upon.
Quarter the onion and place in the bottom of Crock pot.
Add the beans.
Cut through the rind of the salt pork and place pork on top of the beans.
Mix the sugar, molasses, mustard and pepper with 1 pint of boiling water.
Pour this over the beans. Add more water to almost cover beans.
Cook on low for 8-10 hours or if pressed for time, turn on high for a while and then turn down to low until done.