Cathy's Baked Beans

Description
purchased from the Zimmerman Estate in Terrell, Texas in 1989

Date on card says 1944

Ingredients

 * 2 cups navy beans
 * 2 teaspoons salt
 * 3 tablespoons brown sugar
 * ¼ cup molasses
 * 1 bay leaf
 * ½ teaspoon dry mustard
 * ¼ cup chopped white onion
 * 1 cup boiling water
 * ½ pound salt pork (I have also used bacon and it works extremely well)

Directions

 * 1) Wash beans.
 * 2) Cover with water and soak overnight.
 * 3) Drain well.
 * 4) Cover with a large amount of boiling salted water and boil slowly for 1 hour. Drain well.
 * 5) Combine salt, sugar, molasses, bay leaf, mustard, onion and water and add to beans.
 * 6) Pour into bean pot. Score rind of pork and press into beans, leaving the rind exposed.
 * 7) Cover beans with additional boiling water and bake in 300 degree oven for 4 hours.
 * 8) Remove cover for last hour of baking