Traditional Bean Hole Beans

Description
Every Old Home Day in Maine/NH will have their version of these Bean Hole Beans...absolutely none better!
 * Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group, from the Recipe Link
 * Cook time: 9 hours
 * Serves: 6 to 8.

Ingredients

 * 2 lbs of yellow eye beans (Navy or Great Northern beans)
 * 1 lb salt pork (sliced) boiling water, enough to cover

Mix

 * 1 teaspoon dry mustard or prepared mustard
 * ½ cup molasses
 * ½ – 1 teaspoon salt
 * ½ cup water
 * 1 large onion, cut in half

Directions

 * 1) Soak 2 pounds of beans overnight.
 * 2) Parboil beans until the skin peels away by blowing on a few beans in a spoon.
 * 3) Add the mix to the beans and stir slightly.
 * 4) Slice 1 pound salt pork into sections.
 * 5) Cut each section partly through in a criss-cross pattern and place pieces on top of the beans.
 * 6) Cover the beans and set to one side.
 * 7) The bean hole should be dug into the ground and be half again as large as your dutch oven or any other tightly lidded pot.
 * 8) Using seasoned hard wood, accumulate live coals until hole is ¾ full.
 * 9) Shovel out the coals leaving about 3 inches of live coals in the bottom of the hole.
 * 10) Set the bean pot in the hole on top of the 3 inch bed of coals.
 * 11) Shovel the rest of the coals around and on top of the pot.
 * 12) Cover with dirt and check for escaping steam and making sure none is leaking out.
 * 13) If steam is leaking out, cover area with more dirt.
 * 14) Leave in the ground for 8 hours or overnight.