This recipe was sent to me by my good friend Sweetie over at Basics Matter for the Frugal Food Series: Beans.
While she uses canned beans in this recipe, you could easily substitute dried beans that you have soaked and cooked for the kidney beans and possibly the pork & beans (great northern or navy beans either plain or made up into a homemade pork & beans recipe)
Our Old Settlers Baked Beans
Excellent with cornbread muffins or served on buns as a sandwich the next day.
Remember, you can always substitute in soaked & cooked dried beans for canned beans in any recipe.
Ingredients
- 16 oz can kidney beans
- 16 oz can butter beans
- 16 oz can pork and beans
- 1 lb ground beef or turkey or pork
- 1 sm onion chopped
- 2/3 C Brown Sugar
- 1/4 C Molasses can substitute syrup
- 1/2 C Ketchup
- 2 TBS Prepared Mustard
- 1/2 C BBQ sauce
- 1/4 tsp chili powder
- 3 slices bacon or turkey bacon or 1/4 cup salad bacon crisps
Instructions
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Cook meat in a large skillet until lightly browned.
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Add onion and cook until tender.
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Add remaining ingredients except bacon and stir well.
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Pour into a 3 qt casserole, top with bacon and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hr.
Thanks for the recipe. I wish there was a picture. I kinda need to visualize to help determine if I will try it.
Hmmm. Well, since it’s a reader’s recipe I don’t have a picture-but it sounds like a great potluck take a long-if you made a batch & brought it to an “event” it would get eaten and you could try it without your family having to eat it for days if they didn’t like it 😉