Moolie - Happy Thanksgiving :)

[moolie]

Oh, should post the recipe for the beans--it's a hybrid of two recipes from an old 1960s Better Homes and Gardens Canning cookbook:

1/4 lb cooked bacon, crumbled
2 onions, chopped and sauted in the bacon fat
4 cups dry navy beans, soaked overnight
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup tomato sauce
2 tablespoons dry mustard
salt

Cook bacon, remove from pan, crumble and set aside.

Saut onions in bacon fat.

Drain soaked beans and put into large pot, cover with new filtered water and add all sauce ingredients except bacon.

Heat through, skim foam if necessary.

Divide bacon evenly among 8 pint jars, then use slotted spoon to add beans to jars till 2/3 full.

Pour in sauce, leaving 1" headspace.

Process pints 75 minutes.

 

[Denim Deb]

Looks good. I might have to try them.

 

[justusnak]

Sounds like a great recipe! Thanks for posting that,I am DEFINATELY going to try it.

 

[moolie]

Let me know how it turns out for you

We actually had the last jar from the old batch with dinner last night--needed a quick dinner before the girls headed out to their Pathfinder (Girl Guides) meeting so we had beans on toast with some lovely pork Farmer's sausage. It was yummy.

Finally got the rest of the garden planted--all the seeds went in a week and a half ago (carrots, radish, beets, lettuce, romaine, onions, peas, yellow and green wax (bush) beans, cukes, sage, tarragon, basil, marjoram, rosemary, and dill) but it's been raining on and off so I never got the tomatoes in till yesterday afternoon.

It's been raining ever since except for a couple of clear hours this morning so here's what the garden looks like now with 6 wall-o-water "Kozy Coats" and a bunch of plastic cloches to keep the tomatoes warm. I didn't have enough covers for all the tomatoes, so two plants have a protective ring of water bottles la Wifezilla's "redneck wall-o-water".

The yellow dots in the garden are marigolds and nasturtiums, the yellow plastic milk crate is my gardening seat because I have a bum knee.

I still have a bunch of tomato starts, the one bell pepper start that actually germinated, along with more seeds for herbs, zukes, pumpkin, and squash to go into the big pots on my deck to trail over the side--hoping the rain slacks off so I can do that later today. Super late on the squash, but hopeful that we'll get a nice harvest anyway since the post are movable into the garage when the late summer frosts start up.

 

[justusnak]

Oh, should post the recipe for the beans--it's a hybrid of two recipes from an old 1960s Better Homes and Gardens Canning cookbook:

1/4 lb cooked bacon, crumbled
2 onions, chopped and sauted in the bacon fat
4 cups dry navy beans, soaked overnight
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup tomato sauce
2 tablespoons dry mustard
salt

Cook bacon, remove from pan, crumble and set aside.

Saut onions in bacon fat.

Drain soaked beans and put into large pot, cover with new filtered water and add all sauce ingredients except bacon.

Heat through, skim foam if necessary.

Divide bacon evenly among 8 pint jars, then use slotted spoon to add beans to jars till 2/3 full.

Pour in sauce, leaving 1" headspace.

Process pints 75 minutes.

Hey Moolie. I have a question about this recipe. I couldn't find navy beans, but bought great northern white's. Will these work???

 

[moolie]

I should think so, sometimes I buy beans labeled "navy" and sometimes they're labeled "small white beans". I would think that any mild-flavoured white bean will take the sauce nicely

 

[justusnak]

I should think so, sometimes I buy beans labeled "navy" and sometimes they're labeled "small white beans". I would think that any mild-flavoured white bean will take the sauce nicely

Thanks Moolie....Thats what I was thinking, small, white, close enough! LOL
Now I have to go find molasses.....THEN I am going to cook up a batch, and if we like it, several more batches!

 

[moolie]

If you aren't canning it, it tastes even better the second day after fully cooked

 

[justusnak]

I need to make a BUNCH of this.....we have 2 LARGE cookouts coming up here, and I wanted to have this for the cook outs. Think I could get away with not useing molasses??

 

[moolie]

I think so, I play around with ingredients all the time and have made it without when I haven't had any. Taste as you make up the sauce and make it how it tastes good to you