Baked Pea Beans Recipe
- 2 lb White beans, navy pea beans
- 1 x Onion, studded with
- 2 x Cloves
- 1 x Bay leaf
- 1 Tbsp. Salt
- 1 lb Salt pork, lean
- 1 lb Smoked ham
- 3 x Onions
- 3 x Garlic cloves
- 2 tsp Mustard pwdr
- 1/4 c. Rum
- ^^ SOAK washed and sorted beans overnight.
- ^^ Drain and add in fresh water to come 3 inches above the beans.
- Add in the onion stuck with cloves, bay leaf, and salt, and bring to a boil.
- Boil rapidly for 5 min.
- Skim the top, reduce the heat and simmer till the beans are tender but not mushy.
- ^^ Meanwhile, put the salt pork in water and bring to a boil.
- Lower the heat and simmer for 25 min.
- Remove the pork from the water and cut it first into slices, then into small pcs.
- Cut the ham into strips.
- ^^ Peel and chop the onions and garlic cloves.
- Blend the mustard with a little bean liquid.
- Taste the beans for seasoning.
- Place a layer of the beans in the bottom of a large baking dish.
- Add in a layer of salt pork, ham, onion, and garlic.
- Repeat the layers ending with beans on top.
- Pour the mustard water over the mix, and add in sufficient bean liquid to come to the top of the baking dish.
- Bake in preheated moderate oven (350F) for 90 mins.
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- Keep the beans moist while baking; add in more bean liquid or possibly water.
- ^^ After 90 mins.
- remove and pour the run over the beans.
- Return to oven and bake another 45 min, or possibly till nicely browned and bubbly.
- Reheat at picnic on camp stove or possibly serve cool.
- NOTES : "Beach Picnic" Menu Cool Broiled Chicken / Baked Pea Beans / Pungent French Roll Salad / Cheese and Pears / Peanut Butter Cookies / Beverages
white beans, onion, cloves, bay leaf, salt, salt pork, ham, onions, garlic, pwdr, rum
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/baked-pea-beans-75214 (may not work)