How to Make Boston Baked Beans ~ A New England Saturday Tradition!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Let this native New Englander show you how simple it is to make real Boston Baked Beans, just as they have been made since Colonial days, and I'll even show you a couple of favorite New England variations.
RECIPE:
Boston Baked Beans
1 lb. dried Navy, Soldier, Pea, or other favorite beans.
6 Tbs. brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup Grandma's dark molasses
2 tsp. dry Coleman's mustard
1 tsp. salt
1 medium onion, chopped coarsely
4-6 oz. fat salt pork belly, scored crosswise to rind in 1/2 inch squares. Do not cut through rind. Hint: pork cuts easier if frozen.
DIRECTIONS:
Pick over beans for defects or stones, wash, and soak overnight in 1-1/2 gallons water.
In morning, parboil about 25 minutes. Skins will crack open when blown upon. Do not add any salt.
Remove beans with slotted spoon to crock, but reserve the liquid, which will be needed throughout cooking for replenishment.
Add remaining ingredients and stir in enough of the reserved liquid generously to completely cover. Place pork on top of beans with the cut pork belly side down, with rind facing up.
Cover with crockery lid or cover loosely with foil. Do not seal tightly.
Check at least every 90 minutes and don't allow beans to dry out. Replenish with reserved parboil water as needed during cooking to maintain liquid.
Bake at 275° F for six hours, or until tender.
NOTE: Kidney, yellow-eye and certain others require longer cooking times at increased temperature of 300°.
Random black guy from Brooklyn. Thanks pops. This is all I wanted. All these damn recipes for beans and I'm like. Hold up...wait new England's got the answer I need. And I stayed for the storytelling. I'm watching this in the twilights of father's day and my dad would have loved this, he was old when he had me. Would have been 83.
This white boy learned to cook from old black aunties I caught fish for . Best homemade hot sauce I ever ate .
Black girl from Harlem here, living in Brooklyn. This is the real baked beans. My mom (RIP) lived for baked beans. I want to make them because I been missing her presence more lately.
@@jahminastephens8026 That's fucking beautiful. That's how my father was about these beans.
You have no idea what a blessing it is to watch and listen to a good person like yourself in this current world.
A good "clean living" channel. I watched a channel of a fellow shooter just last night and I had to turn him off because his language was causing the girls in my home to gasp! Can't you just shoot, speak intelligently, and get your point across that way? Apparently this guy had to let us hear the f word 14 times a minute. Absolutely ridiculous!
@@Jeff_Seely a 100% Amen!!!…this channel rocks!…”salt pork” is what we here in the South always referred to as “Streak-O-Lean”…we always cut to our needs and recommendations for our recipe!
@@Jeff_Seelydoes he like ak’s?
I would like to have seen the beans when they were done. I enjoyed watching you make them .
Baked beans and cornbread is the perfect cold weather meal
I watched this video last night. I decided to stop by Goodwill today to look for any kind of bakeware with a lid. Lo and behold, there was a bean pot just like yours. Less than ten bucks after the senior discount.
I see beans in my future.
Peace and love.
I found mine at goodwill too; it’s so handy for my weekly baked beans
Taught me how to oil my AR, take apart and clean my 1911 and now I’m making baked beans. The real plus is when we get into the Bible. This is my most useful channel by far.
More of these Blue!!! Add the finished product at the end though and let us see you enjoy it too!
Sir, I am a French Canadian, I watched my mother make beans almost every Saturday morning, after beans were soaked overnight. Your recipe is truly a French version. There is a few small differences. My mom cubed the salt pork, and used only black strap molasses, no brown sugar! Thank you very much for your recipe. Mom cooked her beans in a cast iron pot with a wire handle! Thank you very much!!:
I am a 57 yo Montrealer and his is my grandmother's recipe! I no longer boil my beans, I simply bake mine in a crockpot. Incredibly good 🥰
Hot dogs,Beans, and Brown Bread on a Saturday. A New England Tradition for sure. Sounds like a great winter day to bake some beans and warm the house.
I love the indignation over the sliced salt pork. My late mom would be all over that. LOL
Great recipe. Thanks
Hello everyone, I make what I refer to as maine baked beans and I use soldier beans that I get from Maine , I have almost the same recipe but instead of sugar, I use maple syrup , everything else is exactly the same as what we just saw our friends use ,
PS. I live in Florida now, but every winter here in Florida I make baked beans and I use the same bean pot that I have been using for almost 50 years.
Thank you sir for the video and everyone out there should give this a try !
I love beans! Especially with cornbread.
This just became my monday project:)
No shops sell molasses in Norway, so it will be a maple syrup only version.
Dont be shy with more local comfort
food videos 😋
Thanks
I'll be doing more! Perhaps New England clam chowder next.
That's the one!
Maybe you can get treacle in Norway… virtually the same.
@@brianeaton3734 Yes dark treacle would be the right choice in Norway.
@@brianeaton3734not at all the same taste!
Every time I watch your videos in this crazy and frightening times we live in, I remember a quotation from a German comedian: "in the old times, everything was good. Now everything is better. It would be better if everything would be good again".
That, with brown bread or jonnycakes, is a perfect winter supper.
Nice ... I grew up in the NE and remember mom making beans on Saturdays!! We usually went hunting on Saturdays as well ... God bless! 🙏
As a kid I went to the Saturday night bean supper at the church every week. My grandfather usually made the beans and there was major debate over the bean and coleslaw recipes.
My mom has an age old recipe. She worked at a little store 35 years ago and brought some in to her coworker. The owner was blown away and started selling them.
My mom has an old cast iron pot.
I'll bet it was heavy and well cured.
All I need is some molasses and I'm ready to give this a try. It's being added to the shopping list.
I’m in my 70’s live in MA I can remember my Mom and Grandmother bake beans cooked in the Dutch oven outside in the fireplace my Grandfather built,,,,,add hot dogs, nothing better
I grew up in Connecticut. Shoveled driveways for $1, pond hockey in the woods behind our house. Skied wherever we could, a lot in our neighborhood. Coming home to a pot of homemade beans was always the best, and luckily common. Now I live in Alaska, and I bake mine with black beans in a cast iron Dutch Oven . Sometimes I go the southern French way and throw some andouille sausage in there with it. Learned from my Acadien father in law from way up northern Maine. It's a treat. Your recipe here is what I grew up with, great memories, more to come. Thanks for a great video
Thank you sir for this recipe! I followed it to a "T" with the exception I used 1lb of bacon rather then salted pork. My son and girlfriend loved it! Your Saturday morn memories reminded me of the deep snowy days we would get in the Upper Peninsula of Mich....I would get home from shoveling like you but I would have hot, homemade pasties with gravy! A UP favorite. Thank you again for your videos, I enjoy them all!
Thank you for another great video. My grand mother used to make baked beans but she would leave a wooden spoon in the pot, when she boiled her beans. She said it would help the farts leave ! She would the make corn bread and cut up extra onions for grandpa. Your video, gave me a walk down memory lane. The second day was always the best day. You have a very clean kitchen !
Sir,
It has been awhile. I am glad to see that you and Bennie are doing well.
I am hungry all of a sudden!
Well wishes from Utah!
Many Thanks
Almost 60 degree here in southern Ohio. Almost 80 degree two days ago. I can also remember going out with my buddies shoveling driveways for a few bucks. Thanks for the video.
God bless you as well. Now you have me craving some fresh made lol. Looks like that outside here as well , we are not that far from you.
Those look pretty tasty especially on a cold day and around a warm fire.greeat video thanks.🙂👍👍
I make baked beans with the same recipe up in Canada, there isn't much better with some fresh bread on the side. Quite often I will stir half a cup of maple syrup into the beans at the end.
Marvelous addition to your collection. Thank you.
Sir you always have such a nice show, always nice to see you on here
Cheers form midcoast Maine! 🦞🌲 🥰 going to try this for a cookout tomorrow!
Love the beans
Where I am from (southern West Virginia) one of the main traditional meals is pinto beans with a side of cornbread and fried potatoes. The way the beans are cooked some call “soup beans” in other areas but everyone just calls them pinto beans here because that’s the type of bean used
An fresh onions 🤗
It seems as though every society has their delicious pot of beans recipes. My wife, who is from Norway cooks my favorite beans and they will warm you up on a chilly day. They are called hvite bonner i tomatsaus. We typically eat them with my cold smoked pork bellies. Thank you for sharing your delicious preparation, captain.
thank you ; Brings back a lot of good memories. The day after bean sandwiches for lunch.
I grew up in Maine, and this was our Saturday night, too.
I'm here just for a little refresher on putting the beans together.
A charge of cold beans on Sunday morning for breakfast is routine & delicious!
Enjoyed this, thanks...
Very much enjoyed this video. Being from Tennessee I have heard of Boston baked beans all my life but had no idea how easy they are to make. I am going to give them a try very soon. BTW, in the hills we called the salt pork streak meat which we fry up sliced or throw a chunk into our beans as well. I have a cast iron dutch oven my wife and I have had for 47 years. I guess that will do as we don,t have a bean pot. Thanks Again.
Smoked pork ribs great also. Even if not usual Chorizo sausage great with beans and chickpeas
@@WillyK51 Thanks, gotta expand my pallet a bit !
I made mine this past weekend, I still have it. They were stronger than ever
I'm in my mid 60s and have never had 'boston' baked beans! So tonight I followed your recipe. I only had pinto beans around. I added a quartered ambrosia apple. Quite good--thanks!
Thank you! Watching your video was such a blessing.
Very cool 😎
Thank you for posting 👍
I have enjoyed your videos for years and hope for years more to come. You and your family are a joy sir. God bless you.
Many thanks!
I cannot convey to you how much I enjoyed this episode. I now live on the west coast of Canada but grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and visited Vermont, New Hampshire and New York State often. Baked beans were part of my childhood and I will be cooking up a pot them tomorrow thanks to you. Thank you for reminding me my friend.
Loved the video! Next time show the finished product, for those of us who are not New Englanders!
Oh, but I'd rather your imagination take you away. The sweet odor of beans baking all day is better than any image!
Guess I'll just have to buy a bean pot and try it myself. Actually, that might be a fun thing to do.
@@advntr_tme you should it! I know that I will and I have never tried them this way. Amazon have pots for about 25 or $30. I love kitchen gadgetry so it's an adventure for me!
Thanks for the video
Memories.. did many days on the ice..
Thank you for sharing , Have a great weekend there
enjoy those beans , I would bet they are very good !
It just doesn't matter the topic, I can watch a gunblue video on anything and enjoy it.
Im on the seacoast of nh , watching the same snow come down lol .
My mother used to make this dish as well although she didn't use as much salt pork but she also added bacon and we would have brown bread wich i didn't like that much .
This video really brought back some good memories.
My all time favourite dish was home fries and codfish cakes , i wonder if anyone else made that dish .
You describing this meal had my mouth watering.👥🙏🏽🇺🇸✌🏻🙂
Enjoyed watching GunBlue490! I remember being up in Maine a number of years ago and they had something called Bean Hole beans, similar recipe I believe.
My friend had a cabin in the Berkshires.. Sherwood Forest. In the yard by the back door was a bean hole. We cooked beans a couple times in it. Get the fire going and drop the crock down in the hole. Cover and sit by the fire with some wine/beer and wait.
I love your gun stuff. But now your talkin! :) I have two antique ceramic bean pots like that. One was my Mom's, and the other my Aunt's. If your gonna make baked beans, has to be in an old fashioned bean pot! Thanks for sharing. I might just have to get those old pots out, and soak some beans. Make up a batch of baked beans tomorrow! :)
Thanks for the recipe. I lived in Boston for 20 years. This makes me nostalgic for New England. I'll be preparing mine remotely from NC! 👍
Thank you that looks awesome I can't wait to make some God bless you
I am just here to hear gundad490 say "Boston". Thanks for all the great content.
Shoot and cook...we old timers can do it all!
I had been wanting to make ‘real’ baked beans for years. I never would’ve thought I’d find the recipe on my favorite fellow retired wto’s page! I even went so far as to buy a bean pot on eBay haha (they Are a bit pricey) but i found a blue crown 2qt in near new condition for $20 👍🏼
Once i procured a fine (uncut) chunk of salt pork and a fresh jar of Grandma’s molasses i set my beans to soak. The next day was busy so i didn’t get to combine the ingredients and set the pot to bake until quite late in the day. The short story is, as time passed and i topped the pot with leftover ‘bean boiling water’ just one time- i fell asleep in the chair 😮 only to wake 5hrs later to a bean pot that was in dire need of hydration 😅 with no alternatives i topped it off and returned it to the oven for what became about 9 hrs total cook time and they still came out quite well. A little more robust than i would’ve liked but quite edible and we enjoyed them. Thank you for another great piece of advice and the inspiration to be a fellow bean maker!
Be well and God bless
Nice, hard to find these gotta make my own.
Cheers from peabody.
My wife was born in Pbady. (Correct pronunciation)
Thanks for sharing! No snow here in NJ but it is 30 degrees so the beans are still welcomed!
My mother made a pot of large lima beans every Friday; New England style, but no pork. They were delicious!
I was just given an antique Bean Pot this past week - I am really excited about making Boston Baked Beans. I enjoyed your presentation! Thank you from out in the middle of nowhere South Dakota!
Growing up we had beans and wieners with biscuits and would gather in the living room to watch Bugs Bunny. My mother grew up in Worcester so probably a traditional recipe.
Thank you for this amazing video! I need to get myself a bean pot!
Shoveling people out...Kids today aren't that energetic. Great video.
50 cents was big cash, that would represent ten bucks or more today, and we'd clean up with several jobs before noon with two or three bucks in our piggy bank every snowstorm. One morning shovelling was as profitable for me as an entire week delivering 80 papers.
@@GunBlue490 I shoveled snow in the winter and mowed lawn's and done yard work in the summer. Picked potatoes in the fall.
I just used your recipe almost exactly and they came out great! I'm in upstate NY, Grandma browns brand baked beans were something I looked forward to in the summer time. Unfortunately they are out of business. Since I learned to make beans from your video I may never buy a store bought can of beans again. Thank you!
There's a recipe on you tube duping Grandma's but she makes it too dry to pasty I thought but the ingredients seems close
Thank you so much for your no nonsense video. Been looking for a basic baked bean recipe.
I really like this guys and his cooking... His recipes are really good ! I hope for more of your great recipes !
I appreciate the surprise content, love the family recipe!
Just made the beans. They were great. Thanks for the recipe.
Enjoyed your video very much. You remind me of my grandfather - a downeaster. The beans were terrific and reminded me of my mother's.
Thank you, I am thrilled to find a traditional recipe for baked beans! Too many recipes I googled adding garlic, ginger or rosemary, but I just wanted the basic NE version like my Mom would make. My beans are soaking now and I'm baking a few loaves of Anadama bread (another NE favorite) tonight to have with our baked beans tomorrow night.
I'll give this recipe a try-I got the beans soaking and tomorrow after Mass will put it all together.
This is really cool, I enjoy your gunsmith videos, but as someone from Virginia, that's a really good way to get to know someone, is over food the other person likes.
I made a pound of navy and pinto beans and a 1/2 pound of great northern beans in my bean pot with this recipe this past weekend.
I Could not improve on the flavor If I tried.
Fantastic recipe, exactly the
flavor I imagined when I first watched the video.
They were also a hit at work on Monday
Hey Gun Blue, I pick up bacon ends from the local butcher to make my baked beans. Delicious.
I enjoy your videos and was surprised to see a cooking video. As I love all things "old school" cooking is on that list. Your wisdom and no nonsense approach is for lack of a better term, cool. Thanks for sharing and I hope you make more recipes. Now if you just had a passion for motorcycles too...
Interesting that a local dish here in Wyoming is made in the exact same manner, but called “Buffalo Bob Beans”. Buffalo Bob was an early Explorer and mountain man who traveled with a indian medicine man known as “How-Daa Doow-Daa”.
If I have my history correctly, Wyoming was settled by Easterners moving westward, which explains the same food recipes you use. Buffalo Bob's beans came from heeya, ayuh. Lol. I grew up watching Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody on TV in the early 50's.
Thank you again
You're welcome!
It been many years ago that my mom use to make that. I know indeed to.make some in time.
Would love to see what it looked like when it was all done.
Thanks for the videos! I’ve learned a lot.
Love to see Benny
I love listening to you in sharing your recipes! I will be making this recipe soon. Thank you for showing me how it’s done 🫘🥣😊
Hello from Michigan! I am making these now to bring to my brothers house tomorrow. I even bought the bean pot....smells good! Thank you so much!
Mainer here watching to refreash my ideas about baked beans, and you gave a fantastic recount on how to make them. It has been a while sine I last made them. Thanks you sir
They are in the oven and 6 hours from now we will be enjoying some baked beans. My pork was siced too so tied it up like you did.
I used your recipe two days ago and you are right about how good they are, thanks.
They came out looking absolutely delicious…I guess.
@GunBlue490 - Wonderful tucker there mate. I've been a maker of baked beans for a while, and was very keen to see how you do it. My preferred way is very similar to yours. I use the same ingredients, plus I add a little bit of tomato paste (just a hint), two bay leaves, a little splash of cider vinegar, and some black pepper. I always use dark brown sugar, as I reckon it's a tad nicer. It's hard to find good molasses here, so I don't use as much as it's a bit bitter, and the dark brown sugar makes up the sweetness. I'll try maple syrup sometime to see how that goes. The salt pork we get here is called pork spec. It's smoked. Sometimes I also add a tiny bit of liquid smoke too, as I love the taste of smoky beans, but I only add a very tiny amount. I also make a large feed of beans, and bake it for hours in a big baking dish, adding water as I need to. As the top goes a bit dry I mix it all in to get the flavour through & add more water to just cover it. Six or 8 hours later, the taste & smell is out of this world. Sometimes I use big a cast iron dutch oven. I package it up into servings for 2, and freeze them. I make beans every couple of months. Thanks ever so much for going to the trouble of posting this recipe. I would have loved to see what the finished product looked like. Greetings & blessings once again from Australia. Enjoy your Easter celebration.
Life is better with cold hands and a warm heart. Thank you for sharing your treasured memories and culinary wisdom. Keep being as great as you are. Happy New Year and this recipe would be wise to put on deck for the coming Sunday Northeastern storm headed your way. Stay safe.
What?? !! You didn't show us the finished product ! I was so ready for that. :) Maybe a follow up video with them hot and steaming...some nice cornbread on the side. :)
Thanks. Looks good...
Great video, thank you for sharing it.
Wonderful! I really enjoy the variety of content you produce! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve got to try this!
Looks great!
I really enjoyed the video. I will have to try this recipe
I MADE THEM AND THEY ARE AMAZING! TY!
WISH I COULD SEND U PICS LOL YAY!!! I CANNEDM!! TY!!
I sure do want to try this. My ex-wife was a Michigander and they had their own take on beans, cooking almost identical ingredients but finishing them off in a cast iron pan in the oven; they were delicious! ...maybe not authentic, but perhaps ceramic pots are even more scarce out west?! 😄
One of my favorite treat foods when I was a kid growing up in Chicago was B&M Baked Beans that came in a jar shaped like a bean pot. They were different from all other beans available at that time in the Midwest. Fast forward. I now live in Maine and make my own baked beans New England style, and I love them so much with fried fish and collard greens in the Southern tradition. Although I grew up in Chicago, my family background is from the South, hence the eating of fish and collard greens. Good food makes me happy, no matter where it comes from!
Here's a bit of historic trivia. B&M rarely marketed the bean pot jars in New England. They were for "export". There was a long standing competition in the day between B&M and Friends Beans, but most were loyal to B&M.
My father was a Mainiac, my mother from New Hampshire, but we lived all over the world. My mom’s bean recipe was similar, but never this precise! Now I know what it should be!
I’m 75, live in Washington state, load my own (a bit new to it), shoot for fun and cook for flavor; your beans are fantastic. As a kid, my mom used to make Boston style baked beans-my dad loved them and I lived just to have her make another batch. It’s been many years without such wonderful beans; I watched your video last night, soaked my beans and started them early this morning-WOW!
I just wanted to say enjoying the beans and watching your video has made my day and most probably my week. I am truly enjoying videos narrated by someone with reason, logic, religion ethics and fantastic contents; much appreciated-keep it up!!!!
Thanks for the recipe. the first go I used black treacle. Now I've sourced some molasses, we're knocking up the next batch in the UK. Salt pork is not that easy to source , so pork belly has been substituted👍👍.
Pork belly is really the same thing, but without having been salted. It'll taste perfect. Have fun!
I _really_ enjoyed the laid back casual narration of how to make homemade _Boston style baked beans_ , but was quite disappointed that we didn't get to see the beans served up 😞😞😞