Old Fashioned Baked Beans

Ingredients

1 great northern
1,000 gr mixed beans great
3 gr salt
16 ml dry mustard
1 gr black pepper
1 gr black pepper from a bottle
1 ml sauce
60 gr onion
180 gr coarse onion
60 ml molasses
55 gr brown sugar
34 gr sugar
60 ml cider vinegar
120 ml vinegar

Instructions

Presoak beans. Drain. Combine dry ingredients and mix with beans; stir in other ingredients. Pour into 1.5 qt. or 2 litre baking dish or bean pot. [Obviously, if you double the recipe like I did, you'll need a bigger pot :-] Pour in boiling water to cover. Cover. Bake at 150ÂșC or 6 hours; add a bit of boiling water if needed. (Crock-pot method: cook on low 8-10 hours.) Comments: I just dumped everything on top of the beans and stirred them; then covered them with hot tap water. They took a lot longer than 10 hours to cook, but that might have been due to too-low heat on the crockpot. (Also, reportedly vinegar and other acid substances need to be added at the end of cooking else they'll make the beans tough.) These beans were *really* good. The caramelized onions were even better. I've enjoyed the beans plain, with barbecue sauce, and with spinach and corn added.