Baked beans

“Baked” beans

Ingredients

1.5 cups dried pinto, navy, kidney or lima beans; or a combination of beans
2 cups apple juice
2 cups water
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons molasses
½ cup ketchup
½ teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 medium tomato, diced

Directions
Prepare this in the morning while you are cooking breakfast and making sandwiches for lunch.

Gather all needed supplies and ingredients [pressure cooker or cast iron |Dutch oven are great for this along with a straw box cooker]]

1. Wash hands in warm, soapy water.
2. Sort beans and remove any foreign material such as stems or rocks. Wash and drain
beans.
3. Add beans & all other ingredients to the apple juice and water bring to a boil
covered, maintain heating until you are done with breakfast, then kill the heat and
let soak over the day in the straw box cooker. This will retain the heat and allow the
beans to both absorb the fluid and start cooking.
4. In the early evening check to see how tender the beans are, then bring back to a boil
and cook until the beans are done.
5. serve over rice or bread [cornbread maybe]

Variants you can add diced ham, bacon or other meats, onions, bell peppers or celery.

Makes 6 to 9 servings depending on what you as variants and how much rice or bread that you like to use.

Fuel use is about one hour in the AM on the same fire that you were going to use anyway for breakfast and an hour or so in the evening so you end up saving a lot of fuel over the
original directions which called for boiling the beans for 3 hours and then baking in the oven covered for 3 hours and then uncovered for another hour. Or 7 hours active use of fuel

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