Category - Vegetables

HART STILLWELL'S BAKED BEANS

    Hart Stillwell's Baked Beans

    Hart Stillwell, a frontier novelist, made a rough version of these beans over campfires while on fishing and hunting trips. If you like beans less sweet, reduce the amount of brown sugar.

    2 pounds cooked navy beans or other white beans
    1 1/2 cups tomato juice
    1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
    3/4 cup dark brown sugar (or less)
    3/4 cup strong black coffee
    1/2 medium red onion, chopped
    1/2 cup catsup
    1/2 cup bourbon
    4 slices slab bacon, chopped
    1 carrot, finely grated
    2 tablespoons unsulphured dark molasses
    2 tablespoons dry mustard

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

    Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Pour the mixture into a baking dish. Bake the beans, uncovered, about 1 1/2 hours, or until they have thickened and cooked down, with a "skin" just beginning to form on the top of the beans.

    These beans reheat well and keep refrigerated for several days.


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