Baked Beans

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Tuesday I decided that I was going to try to make yummy baked beans. I have always enjoyed baked beans, every Easter Sunday as long as I can remember my aunt Beki brought beans to Easter dinner at my grandma’s. Since I have been married I have had cravings for her sweet and savory beans and I have tried to duplicate it with no success. Finally a couple of years ago I got the recipe from her and I have been enjoying them, and I have taken them several times to pot-luck dinners, and have always gotten compliments.

In the last year, as I have been trying to incorporate dried beans into our diet I started to experiment again at making Beki’s baked beans, and several times I failed horribly!

But yesterday, I did it!

and I am going to share with you all how I did it.

(don’t you feel lucky!)

Aimee’s Baked Beans
1 pound dry navy beans (or any other small bean) cooked
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1 small can tomato sauce (8 oz)
6 Tbsp molasses
bacon or sausage, cooked
2 Tbsp bacon grease (the secret ingredient) or shortening
salt and pepper to tasteI served this with Katie’s Sweet Corn Bread

and it was a hit with 4 out of 7 of us…
(but I loved it so that is what matters)

With beans, as with anything new, you need to keep serving them to your family. Even if they hate them at first the more you serve them, the more they become common place the more your kids (and you, and your husband) will get use to the idea of eating beans. Eventually they will find that they like beans.

I promise,

well, ok, I don’t really promise

but I am pretty sure it will happen….

Mix all ingredients in a dutch oven, bake at 350 for an hour and a half
or
Mix all ingredients in a crock pot and cook on high for 5 hours.

6 thoughts on “Baked Beans”

  1. Oh, wow, these look so yummy! I know we’ll all love them.

    I also love how your recipes starts with a pound of dry beans. It seems so much friendlier than all the recipes that call for cans.

  4. jen,

    That is about 2 1/2 cups dry beans. I cooked them over night in the crock pot, and the next day around noon I put the recipe together.