Garrett's Favorite Baked Beans

Submitted by Nadacook

"A very sweet version that starts with ordinary canned pork&beans. Your nutritionist and you dentist won't approve of the ingredients, but it's been my son's favorite for many years. Eerily similar to the one published in the 1967 Joy of Cooking - and there's a reason for that. (I'm posting it so he can look it up when he plans a cookout.)"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 2 much
• Serves: 1-6

ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups canned pork and beans (B&M, Campbell's, grocery store house label, doesn't really matter)
• 1⁄2 cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons molasses
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 -2 slice bacon
• 1 -2 tablespoon minced onion (or more)
• salt
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce (optional)

directions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Pour the canned beans (undrained) into a large bowl. Add ketchup, molasses, brown sugar. In a microwave or small skillet on the stovetop, cook the bacon, remove from the fat when done. Add minced onion to the bacon fat and let it cook briefly until it appears translucent, then put the bacon fat, cooked onion and crumbled bacon into the bowl with the beans. Add some salt and hot pepper sauce - or not, depending on your mood. Mix the bowl contents throughly, then USE A SLOTTED SPOON to transfer the beans to a baking dish, preferably a shallow one. (You'll leave lots of thick syrupy stuff in the bowl and your mission is to find a way to dispose of it.) Bake the beans COVERED (aluminum foil works) for 30 minutes. Remove the cover and continue baking for another 30 minutes.
2. * To make the traditional baked beans and hot dog dinner (the nutritionist is now dialing 9-1-1), make a lengthwise slash in each hot dog and gently place the dogs on top of the beans when you take the cover off the dish, so that they cook with the beans for the last 30 minutes. While everything is baking, call your doctor to schedule glucose tolerance and cholesterol tests.
3. *Other notes: A few tablespoons of barbecue sauce can be substituted for part of the ketchup. The recipe can easily be halved, doubled, tripled, altered, deleted, or ignored.