Boston Baked Beans

Total Time: 9 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3 cups dried pea beans (other dry beans can be subsituted)
• 1/2 lb salt lamb
• 1/3 cup molasses
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard

Recipe

• 1 soak the beans overnight in water.
• 2 in the morning drain beans well and pick through discarding bad beans.
• 3 put in large pot and cover beans with water and boil beans until the skins split when you blow on them (30- 60 minutes after water boils).
• 4 drain.
• 5 divide salt lamb into two pieces.
• 6 slash salt lamb pieces deeply several times and place in the bottom of a large bean pot or casserole.
• 7 pour in the drained beans.
• 8 mix together remaining ingredients (molasses, salt and mustard).
• 9 add mixture to beans with enough hot water to cover.
• 10 cover and bake at 300-degrees f for 6-8 hours, checking often and adding water as needed.