Maple Baked Beans

Recipe courtesy Parker's Maple Barn

Show: FoodNation With Bobby FlayEpisode: New Hampshire

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (17)

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Cook Time:
12 hr 0 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
12 (1/2 cup) servings

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 12 hr 0 min
Total:: 12 hr 15 min

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Ingredients

2 pounds beans, either kidney or navy pea variety
8 (1-inch) cubes salt pork
1 Spanish onion, sliced
1 quart Bean Goop, recipe follows

Directions

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.

Fill a stockpot with the beans and enough cold water to cover them. Bring the water to a boil and parboil the beans for approximately 20 minutes. Drain the water and reserve for later use. Place 4 salt pork cubes and half of the onion on the bottom of the bean pot. Fill the pot 3/4 full with beans. Add the Bean Goop. Fill the rest of the pot with the reserved water. Place the remaining cubes of salt pork and onion on top of the beans. Cover first with a layer of plastic wrap, then a layer of aluminum foil. Bake in the oven for 10 hours. Check beans at that time, blowing on them to see if the skin peels back. If so, they are finished. Time will vary depending on your oven and how long the beans were parboiled in the beginning. Cooking time could increase to as long as 12 hours total.

Bean Goop:

2 1/2 cups very hot water

1/2 cup light brown sugar

1/4 cup dark brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1/2 cup ketchup

1/4 cup cider vinegar

1/4 cup pure maple syrup (recommended: Parker's Maple Barn Pure Maple Syrup)

1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper

In a large bowl or medium-size saucepan, mix the hot water with the sugars and molasses to dissolve the sugars. Then mix in all remaining ingredients. Set aside for use in the Baked Beans.

Yield: about 1 quart

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Connie Deephaven, MN 08-20-2009
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Why you should use the plastic wrap
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

The plastic wrap is there to prevent the aluminum foil from reacting to the acid in the beans (ketchup and vinegar). If... you don't use the wrap and the foil touches the beans, it leaves a grey spot of the foil on the beans. Yes, do use a high quality clear wrap.Read more
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Anonymous 06-21-2008
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too sweet
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

little too sweet
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null null, null 03-05-2008
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This is it!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have looked on line for a good navy bean recipe for a long time . they were never quite right. This recipe is the best!
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Rose New Orleans, LA 02-23-2008
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Old Beans!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I thought beans on the shelf in their packaging NEVER got old. Not true. Had some red beans over a year old and I soaked... them for two days (didn't get to them the first day), then put in the pot to cook like normal. I boiled those suckers for almost 12 hours over two days and they never softened! The reason was because the beans were old. I could have boiled them until the end of the decade and they wouldn't have cooked. Learned a trick from the experience from a friend (not that this trick would have helped those beans), you don't have to soak overnight. Just put in pot, cover with enough cold water, bring to boil and add a tablespoon or so of baking soda to the water (maybe 1 tbls. per lb. of beans). After the beans cook for an hour, pour off all the water, rinse and add fresh cold water. Without being crude, this sort of disposes of most of the need for Beano if you get my meaning. Bring back to a boil and they will cook completely in maybe another hour or less. I am making this recipe today, and have done the first part, bring to boil with baking soda, cook for an hour. Then I will dump out the water and use those beans to start the recipe with. Try the baking soda trick, it works!Read more
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Teresa Henderson, NV 11-26-2007
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Better than Bush's & Brick oven
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I really liked this recipe. At first when I saw at how much liquid I had before I placed the beans in the oven. I thought... that for sure the beans were going to turn to mush. Not the case at all. I omitted the plastic wrap and used only the foil and my heavy lid to cover my beans and it was just as good. I swear that once you take the time to do this recipe - don't rush through this and make sure you have enough liquid and goop you will never go back to Bush's or brick oven again.Read more
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Ann Marie scarbough 04-28-2007
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Amazing
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I injoyed this recipe very much. My family loves the beans. I thought the recipe was easy to follow. Thank you.