Baked Beans

Total Time: 8 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup dried baby lima beans
• 1/2 cup dried yellow-eyed peas
• 1/2 cup dried kidney beans
• 1/2 cup dried pea beans
• 1/2 lb salt lamb, back
• 1 medium onion (whole)
• 1 teaspoon instant minced onion
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar (packed well)
• 3 tablespoons molasses
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• hot water

Recipe

• 1 pick over the beans and wash in cold water; rinse.
• 2 cover with cold water and let soak over night.
• 3 drain.
• 4 in the morning, put in a pan and cover with water and parboil till the skins crack and roll up when you blow on them (30-35 minutes or so).
• 5 place onion in the bottom of the bean pot and add the beans saving some of the bean juice to mix with the rest of the ingredients.
• 6 mix the minced onion, sugar, molasses, salt, dry mustard, and some of the hot bean juice to make about 1 1/2 cups.
• 7 pour this over the beans and gently mix.
• 8 if you need more juice, add more of the juice from the pan.
• 9 scrape and slit the salt lamb and put on top of the beans.
• 10 put the cover on the beanpot and bake at 300 degrees for about 7 hours.
• 11 add water if necessary to keep the beans covered.