Home-baked Yellow Eye Beans

Description
This recipe came from The Printey Estate sale. It was obtained it as part of the Family Collection from The Printey Estate in Forney, Texas in 2001.
 * Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group

Ingredients

 * 1½ pounds dry yellow-eye beans
 * 1 small white onion, sliced
 * 1 apple, peeled and sliced
 * ¼ pound salt pork
 * 1 cup maple syrup
 * 1 teaspoon dry mustard
 * 1 tablespoon salt

Directions

 * 1) Soak beans overnight in water
 * 2) Without draining bring to a boil, adding more water to cover as necessary
 * 3) Simmer For 2 Hours.
 * 4) Preheat oven to 275 °F.
 * 5) Put onion and apple in bottom of bean pot then fill half full with beans
 * 6) Add salt pork and pour in remaining beans.
 * 7) Pour maple syrup over beans then sprinkle with mustard and salt.
 * 8) Cover with boiling water and bake 5 hours.