Recipe - Vegetarian Baked Beans

1 pound Haricot; pinto or navy
beans, soaked for at least
6 hours
6 Cloves
1 md Onion
One half Head of celery; finely
chopped
4 ounce Tomato puree
2 ounce Sundried tomatoes; roughly
chopped
One half ounce Barbados sugar;, (brown)

Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F gas mark 4. Bring the beans, which have
been thoroughly soaked, to a boil in their soaking water. Simmer for 10
minutes, remove from the heat, strain, discard the water. Cover again with
fresh water, to about One half an inch above the beans. Push the cloves into the
onion, and bury it and the celery in amongst the beans. Add the tomato
puree, sundried tomatoes and soft brown sugar. Bring to the boil, cover
the pot and place in the oven for 1 1/22 hours until the beans are
completely soft and soaked up all the liquid. Check halfway through
cooking time, just to make sure that all the liquid hasn't gone and it is
drying out. When all the beans are soft, stir the mixture and remove the
onion. If you choose, you can pull out the cloves, chop the onion and
return it to the beans. Adjust the seasoning at this point, and serve with
wholemeal bread.

Adapted from Michael Barry's Radio Times Cookery Year.

Posted to fatfree digest by "andy&shell" andy.shell@virgin.net on Mar 31,
1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.