Grandma Esthers Baked Beans Recipes

GRANDMA'S BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Mix the beans, brown sugar and ketchup in a baking dish.
• Pull the bacon apart and place on top of the beans.
• Bake at 350 degrees until bacon is done and beans are bubbly. About 1 hour.

OLD FASHIONED BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight, well covered with cold water.
• Pour off soaking water and pick over beans to remove any bad ones, or debris.
• Put beans in a pot.
• Cover with fresh cold water and add 1 tsp. baking soda.
• Bring to a boil and cook until skins of beans crack when you take one out on a spoon and blow on it.
• Cut onion in quarters and put in bottom of a bean crock or large casserole.
• Add the partially cooked beans.
• Put cut up salt pork on top.
• (Some people use the salt pork fat. I don't like fat, so I prefer to use the salt pork meat.) Combine brown sugar, molasses, mustard and salt with 1 1/2 cups boiling water.
• Pour over the beans.
• Add more boiling water, if needed, to come just to the top of the beans.
• Also, if needed during baking tme, add more boiling water.
• Bake, covered, at 300 degrees F for 6 hours, or until beans are tender.

GRANNY SMITH'S OLD-FASHIONED BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• 1. Sort and wash beans. Place in large pot, cover with water and let soak overnight.
• 2. Pour off water and replace with fresh. Add salt to beans and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes or until the skin peels back when you blow on one of the beans. Drain.
• 3. Slice onion into the bottom of a dutch oven. Pour drained beans over onion in dutch oven. Cut salt pork into 1/2 inch chunks and bury in the beans. Stir the molasses, chili sauce, mustard, and worcestershire sauce into the hot water and pour over beans. (Add bay leaf if using. Remove before serving.)
• 4. Bake, uncovered, for 6 hours in a 300-degree oven. Do not let beans go dry. Add water as necessary.

GREAT GRANDMA'S BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large pan combine hamburger, sliced bacon, diced green peppers and onions, and cook until hamburger is done.
• Drain any grease that is in the pan.
• Return meat mixture back to the pan.
• Add pork& beans, dark brown sugar, white corn syrup, ketchup, mustard, and salt/pepper to the meat mixture.
• Mix well.
• Pour into a casserole dish and bake for 30 minutes.

GRANDMA PINDUR'S BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Pre-cook bacon in large frying pan until fat is rendered and lightly brown about 5 minutes.
• Mix all ingredients in a baking or cassrole dish. Cover with lid or tin foil.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 2 hours.

GRANDMA'S OLD FASHION BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• 1. Night before go threw beans and soak over night.
• 2. In a large pot boil ham hocks and beans and onion use enough water to just cover hocks.
• 3. After coming to boil turn down and simmer for 1 hour. Remove from heat.
• 4. Take hock out , remove meat from hocks and cut in small pieces.
• 5. Drain beans and onion saving about 1 1/2 cups of broth.
• 6. Put ham , beans, and onion in large casserole dish.
• 7. Mix together rest of ingredience add to beans, ham, and onion.
• 8. Add saved broth a little at a time stirring well.
• 9. Bake in 350 degree oven for 2 1/2 hours.

GRANDMA'S BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• 1. Soak beans overnight. In the morning boil over a low heat for 30 minutes. Adding water to cover if necessary.
• 2. Take 1/2 cup of the bean liquid and dissolve the dry mustard, white sugar and brown sugar. Add to the beans.
• 3. Add the following to the beans. Molasses, salt and ketsup.
• 4. In a dutch oven place the onion and most of the pork cubes in the bottom. Pour in the bean mixture.
• 5. place the remaining pork cubes on top.
• 6. Bake at 325 degrees for 4 hours and 30 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED FRENCH CANADIAN BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Cover beans with water and soak overnight.
• Rinse beans then bring to a boil in approximately 1 quart of water, bay leaf and garlic - simmer for 30 minutes.
• Turn off heat and let beans stand for approximately 1 1/2 hours until soft. Drain and reserve the bean liquid. Discard bay leaf and garlic.
• Mix together remaining ingredients (excluding beans and bacon).
• Add beans to bean pot (or any covered dish).
• Stir in molasses mixture to beans. Top off with some of the reserved bean liquid.
• Arrange bacon on top.
• Cover and bake at 300 degrees for 7 hours. For the final hour of cooking, remove cover to let bean brown up nicely.
• Note: check occasionally and keep beans covered with reserved bean liquid during cooking.