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Hugh Roberts famous
Bean Pot Recipe
The late Hugh Roberts was Holli's father-in-law. These instuctions
are just as he typed them.
Recipe for one pot of
beans.
Beans should cook at
300 degrees for 6 hours.
Soak 8 oz.of dry beans
in 6 cups of water for 10 to 12 hours. Be sure to rinse beans to
get the dry powder off before you soak overnight.
Next Morning: drain beans
first and let them sit. In one cup of cool water, mix one teaspoon
of salt (optional), two teaspoons. Dry mustard 6 tablespoons of
dark bown sugar and 5 tablespoons molasses. Mix with 5 cups of cools
water.
Dice one yellow onion
about the size of a tennis ball. Split diced onions into 3 piles.
one small pile and two larger piles of equal size. The diced onions
should be small enough that nothing will remain after the baking
of the beans.
Cut one slice of salt
pork in half and place in bottom of pot.
Add one of the larger pile of onions, spread around on top of the
salt pork evenly.
Fill pot half full with
beans. Slice second slice of salt pork in half and lay on top of
beans. Spread the last pile of onions in top of beans.
Pour about 3/4s of a
cup of liquid, maybe a cup, or enough to cover beans.
Introduce the pot into
the pre-heated oven. Check every hour and a half to 2 hours. Be
sure beans are always covered with liquid.
Bake the final half hour
without a top on the pot to allow the salt pork to crisp
Depending on the efficiency
of the oven, you may have to cook the beans an extra 1/2 to 1 hour
longer.
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