Recipe - Maple Baked Beans

1 pound Dried Navy pea beans or yell
6 cup Cold water
1 teaspoon Salt
One fourth pound Salt pork
1 Med. onion, peeled
2 teaspoon Dried mustard
One fourth cup Molasses
1/3 cup Brown sugar
1/3 cup Maple syrup

Wash beans and add cold water. Cover and let soak overnight. Add salt to
beans and liquid and simmer gently until tender, about 1 hour. Drain,
reserve liquid. Measure 1Three fourths cup bean liquid, add water if necessary. Cut
a slice from the salt pork and place in the bottom of the bean pot. Add
beans; place the onion in center of the beans. Mix mustard, sugar,
molasses, and maple syrup with bean liquid; pour over beans. Cut 3 gashes
in the remaining salt pork, and place on top of the beans. Rind side up.
Cover and bake 5 to 7 hours in a 300øF oven, adding more water as needed.
Remove cover from bean pot the last half hour so pork rind will brown and
become crisp.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini