Hollys Baked Beans Recipes

THE BEST BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a skillet until crispy and drain on a paper towel. Reserve some of the bacon grease.
• Finely dice the bacon. Reserve 2 tablespoons for garnish. Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350°F, set the rack to the lower-middle position.
• In the same skillet, heat reserved bacon grease on medium-high heat.
• Add the diced red onion and green pepper, sauté until softened.
• In a large bowl, combine brown sugar, ketchup, molasses, cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and dry mustard and whisk together.
• Stir in the beans, onions, and green peppers.
• Pour into a 9x13" baking dish. Bake for 2 hours, then stir in the chopped bacon.
• Bake another hour or more until the sauce has cooked down, and has reached desired consistency.
• Let the beans stand for 5 minutes to thicken sauce.
• Garnish with reserved bacon and green onions. Serve.

OLD-FASHIONED BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, bring beans, salt and 2 qt. water to a boil; boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; let stand for 1 hour. Drain beans and discard liquid. Return beans to pan. Cover with remaining water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until beans are tender. Drain, reserving liquid. In a greased 2-1/2 qt. baking dish, combine beans, 1 cup liquid, onion, molasses, bacon, brown sugar, mustard and pepper. Cover and bake at 325° for 3 to 3-1/2 hours or until beans are as thick as desired thickness, stirring occasionally. Add more of the reserved cooking liquid if needed.

HOLLY'S BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• First you need to soak the beans overnight in cold water. Then turn the stove on and slowly boil until the skins start to peel off the beans. I usually take a spoon full and blow on them.
• drain the beans
• Cut the salt pork into about 4 or 5 slices, and put in the bottom of the bean pot. Pour the beans in over the salt pork.
• In a saucepan put 3 cups of cold water. Add the mustard, molasses and brown sugar to the pan. Cook until hot and pour over the beans in the pot.
• Put the pot into the oven at 300 degrees and cook for about 8 hours. Depending on your oven, they might be done sooner than that. This is my bean pot that I got as a wedding gift 33 1/2 years ago.
• Periodically throughout the cooking process you will have to check the beans to make sure there is enough water. I leave a small pan on the stove and boil water before I add it to the beans. At the end of the cooking process I stop adding water because I want the liquid to be a bit thick. Also taste the beans at times to see how they are doing. You can tell when they're done.
• When my beans are done, I add more brown sugar. This is of course optional. Like I said above my family likes sweet beans. You can leave the beans on the stove with the cover on and they'll stay warm for quite awhile. You can also put them back in the oven to heat through again. Here is the finished product. They are perfectly browned, sweet and delicious. I make Annette's 7-up biscuits, which were delicious, and served them with the beans.