Name: I Baked Beans
Ingredients: dried beans; coarse sea salt; boiling water

I Baked Beans

Ingredients

dried beans
coarse sea salt
boiling water

Directions

Soak the beans overnight.
In the morning, drain the beans and place them in a pot with fresh water.
Heat the pot over the fire, changing the water at least twice while the beans soften.
When ready to bake, sprinkle a little salt on the beans and fill the pot with boiling water.
Bake until the beans are tender.

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.