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Boston Baked Beans

A dish of soaked beans cooked with bacon and baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boston Baked Beans

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Soak the beans in water for 3 to 4 hours or overnight.

  2. Boil water in a pot.

Cook and bake

  1. Cook the bacon in the boiling water for 30 minutes.

  2. Add the soaked beans to the pot and cook until tender.

  3. Transfer the beans to a bowl or pan and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Dried beans
Provide the main body of the dish, becoming tender and creamy as they cook.
Bacon
Adds savory, smoky fat that flavors the cooking water and the beans.

The step that matters

Add the soaked beans to the pot and cook until tender. Beans must be fully softened before baking, because the oven stage will not cook them through. Undercooked beans stay firm and can taste starchy.

“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.

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