Baked beans
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Read about white beans in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
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- 1 lb great northerns
- water
Soak the beans in enough water to cover by two inches for six to eight hours or overnight, then drain but preserve the soaking liquid.
- 1 lb smoked bacon
Cut up the bacon, get it into the Dutch oven and crank the heat to medium to render out some fat.
- 1 whole onion
Cut up the onion radially and then chop across; get it into the pot to sweat down in the rendering bacon fat and stir.
- 2 whole jalapenos
Stem, split, seed and rough dice the jalapenos and add them to soften with the onion; stir, and let it go for five minutes.
- ⅓ cup molasses
- ¼ cup tomato paste
Add the molasses, tomato paste and dark brown sugar.
Molasses, tomato paste and the seasonings
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp liquid smoke
- ½ tsp cayenne
- 1 tsp Urfa Vibra
Add the black pepper, kosher salt, liquid smoke, cayenne and Urfa Vibra.
- 2 cups reserved soaking liquid
Add the soaked beans, two cups of the reserved soaking liquid and two cups of chicken stock.
- 2 cups chicken stock
Set the heat to medium, stir and wait until it comes up to a simmer, not a boil.
Kill the heat, lid up and put it in the middle of the oven for three solid hours before giving it a stir.
Let them cool to room temperature, which takes several hours, before refrigerating or serving.
Checking the finished beans