Hart Stilwell's Baked Beans

This recipe is originally from Hart Stilwell, a frontier novelist, courtesy of Texas Home Cooking. The beans are sweetly delicious. If you don't have a Texan's sweet tooth, reduce the amount of brown sugar a bit. Prep time does not include the cooking of the dried beans.

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

• 2  lbs  cooked navy beans or 2  lbs  other white beans
• 1 1⁄2 cups tomato juice
• 1  cup  chopped pecans, toasted
• 3⁄4 cup dark brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup strong black coffee
• 1⁄2 medium red onion, chopped
• 1⁄2 cup ketchup
• 1⁄2 cup Bourbon
• 4  slices thick slab bacon, chopped
• 1  carrot, grated fine
• 2  tablespoons  unsulphured dark molasses
• 2  tablespoons dry mustard

Directions

1. Mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Pour into a baking dish.
3. 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.
4. The beans reheat well and keep for several days.