On with the Harry family originals! Here's the next in my stack I'm working my way through. Remember eating these? We were always delighted with the outrageous HUGENESS of butter beans!
First a word or 20 on my (Becky again) personal opinions on baked beans. : ) You may have the same opinions as I do, and therefore my ... deep wisdom will speed you on the road to happier living. Haha.
OK, so I dislike really sweet beans. I like desert that IS dessert, not dessert that is beans. (That was pretty much stolen from a book wherein a guy says that he "likes cats is cats, not cats is women." So when I made these did I put in 1 1/4 cups of sugar (don't forget all the additional sugar in the ketchup and the pork and beans!)??? Nope. I dumped in less than a 1/4 cup. And I was happy. But if you like your beans sweet, you go ahead (my little squirts would say "go INhead", drives me NUTS!), and throw it all in there! Do what you want! I mean really, what am I going to do with half a leftover can of lima beans?!? I used them all. And when Tina (who loooooves beans), claimed to not like these, and while yet announcing her dislike stabbed a lima bean on her fork, James said "No Tina! Don't eat the green ones, they're the yucky ones...", and was interrupted by her going on to say that "these green ones are the good ones though.", she kind of lost credibility. And James's childhood torture-by-lima bean came out again. : )
1 lb hamburger
1 lb bacon
1 c chopped onions
1/2 c ketchup
3/4 c brown sugar
1/2 t salt
2 T cider vinegar
1/2 c white sugar
2 T dry mustard
1/2 can green lima beans
1 12 oz can pork and beans
1 can kidney beans (rinsed and drained)
1 can butter beans
Cook bacon, add hamburger and onions, cook and drain off the fat. Add everything else and mix well. Bake at 325 degrees for about 40 minutes, or throw it all in a crockpot, or I'll do it in a pot on the stove when I'm in a hurry.
This is great for potlucks, and can be a satisfying main dish too!
3 comments:
Wait a second, is that quote from "Fair Harbor"? Because I'm rereading that one right now and it sounds suspiciously like something Judah Cahoon said... :)
I must confess, I don't like baked beans, but calico beans is actually ok. I'm not sure if Alex will agree or not!! :)
I make these a lot :)
No, I just read The Rise of Roscoe Paine, so I think it must be in that one. It does sound like something Judah would say too though. : )
If beans are not your thing these are better than most. All that nice bacon and burger to improve things!
Sara, I don't make these enough. I always forget them, but boy are they good at a potluck! I don't know if I ever bring any home!
OK, am I the only one who CAN NOT read these new "prove you're not a robot" letters? I hate them! I guess wrong half the time because they are so smooshed together!
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