Old Fashioned Baked Beans
Grrrrrgh!
Course : Beans
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 1
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1      pound         great northern or small
   2      pounds        mixed beans - great
                        northerns -- white beans
                        romans -- and random mix.
   1      teaspoon      salt -- (omitted)
   1      teaspoon      dry mustard
   2      teaspoons     dry mustard
     1/2  teaspoon      fresh ground black pepper
     1/2  teaspoon      black pepper from a bottle
   1      dash          hot sauce
   1      teaspoon      hot chili -- (heaping)
                        condiment
     1/2  cup           chopped onion
   1 1/2  cups          coarse chopped onion
     1/4  cup           molasses or honey
     1/2  cup           honey -- (scant)
     1/4  cup           brown sugar
   8      teaspoons     white sugar
     1/4  cup           cider vinegar
     1/2  cup           white vinegar
 

Preparation:

Presoak beans. Drain. Combine dry ingredients and mix with beans; stir in other ingredients. Pour into 1 1/2 qt. or 2 qt. baking dish or bean pot. [Obviously, if you double the recipe like I did, you'll need a bigger pot :-] Pour in boiling water to cover. Cover. Bake at 300 degrees for 6 hours; add a bit of boiling water if needed. (Crock-pot method: cook on low 8-10 hours.) Comments: I just dumped everything on top of the beans and stirred them; then covered them with hot tap water. They took a lot longer than 10 hours to cook, but that might have been due to too-low heat on the crockpot. (Also, reportedly vinegar and other acid substances need to be added at the end of cooking else they'll make the beans tough.) These beans were *really* good. The caramelized onions were even better. I've enjoyed the beans plain, with barbecue sauce, and with spinach and corn