Ingredients
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1 large onion
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1/2 lb salt pork
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1/2 cup sugar, a little under
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2 tablespoons brown sugar
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2 tablespoons molasses
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2 teaspoons dry mustard
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1/2 teaspoon pepper
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1 teaspoon salt, if salt pork has mostly meat in it or 1 tablespoon salt, if salt pork has mostly fat in it
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3 cups dried white pea beans or 3 cups dried navy beans, cleaned
Instructions
- Clean beans of pebbles and rocks.
- Put cleaned beans in pot. Set aside.
- Mix sugars, molasses, and mustard. Add salt and pepper. Mix into beans.
- Add enough water to cover beans.
- Place salt pork down into beans. You can opt to cut it up, or leave it whole, like my gram used to do.
- You can also put the onions in whole, or opt to chop them up. She used to keep them whole, so us kids could fight over them lol.
- Bake in bean pot, at 200 degrees, all night or 8 hours If not done, finish in the morning.
- When beans are ready to be eaten, turn oven up to 450 until beans start to boil, then turn back to 200, until ready to serve.
- Note: If beans look like they are drying out, just add water as you are cooking.