Guests and Cuisine

Maybe start this butt a little earlier than the last one.

beans are best baked in a bean pot and its reason bush beans are so nasty and need to be doctored.

if you have a crock pot make them indoors with salt pork and serve them as a side with the pulled pork, make these up ahead and reheat. if you have the crock that is removable from the heat source and has a glass lid you can use that in the egg but keep the cover on, enough smoke will still get in there. these beans will be dark from the kidney and red northerns, traditionally yellow eye beans were used in my area, navy beans to the south

2 small onions sliced thick
2 pounds beans,mix kidney, yellow eye, red beans (sometimes great northers). of all the beans, yellow eyes have the best flavor IMHO
3 TBL brown sugar
3TBL white sugar
2tsp dry mustard
half pound salt pork
1 cup molasses
1TBL sea salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1tsp baking soda
]soak beans 24 hours in water. bring to a simmer and remove 2 cups water and reserve(dont reserve water after it has the baking soda added). add soda to the beans and simmer 1 half hour, turn off and soak for 1 hour. drain and toss this liguid.
bring other ingrediants and reserved water to a boil. layer onions beans onions beans then salt pork floating on top and add the sauce.add boiled water to cover beans.
in the egg i setup at 250 inderect with no saltpork for the first hour or so, then add the pork and cook for 5 hours covered. remove cover for last hour to brown the pork. total cook time is about 6-8 hours, make sure all ingrediants are hot before putting into the egg. after the beans are softened and fully cooked i add a little more molasses to taste if they are bland[p]one thing that ive found is that different water supplys make the times different. my water demands that the soak times are long and that simmering first is needed with the beans or they are hard when cooked. ive used other water sources and did not have this problem
i use a bean pot, [p][p]

now these are a working mans bean made in the mill towns north of boston called rochette beans, usually no onions, this is more an everyday bean verse the holiday sweet boston baked, nothing fancy about these beans

2 lbs  pea beans or any dried white pea beans
1 lb salt pork - cut in 2-inch squares
1/4 cup ketchup
one small onion chopped
 Wash beans thoroughly.  Drain and pour into 4 1/2 quart
Bean pot.  Add pork, ketchup, salt and a little water.
Stir to mix thoroughly.  Add enough water to come up
2 inches from the top of the pot.  Cover pot and cook for
5 hours at 350 degrees.  Remove lid and cover beans
with 1/2 inch of water.  Continue baking beans uncovered
for 2 hours more, or until the salt pork is cooked to taste

for something different google apple pie beans, 
they used to be posted on this site routinely