Name: Canadian Baked Beans
Ingredients: two tablespoonfuls of sugar; salt

Canadian Baked Beans

Ingredients

two tablespoonfuls of sugar
salt

Directions

Prepare

Boil the beans until they begin to crack, with a pound or two of salt fat pork.
Put the beans in the baking pan.
Score the pork across the top, and settle in the middle.

Bake

Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar or molasses.
Bake in a moderate oven for two hours.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

49Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Beans (in the method): Soften when boiled and become tender during the long, slow bake.
Fat pork (in the method): Renders fat that adds richness and savoury flavour and keeps the beans moist.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.