Old-Fashioned Beans

== Description ==
Old-fashioned flavor and worth the wait!
== Ingredients ==
* 1 lb pea or navy beans
* water
* 2 tsp dry mustard
* dash of pepper
* 1 tbsp salt
* 3 onions, chopped
* ¼ cup brown sugar
* ¼ cup molasses
* 2 tbsp sweet pickle juice
* ¼ lb salt pork
== Directions ==
# Wash and clean the beans.
# Cover with water and soak overnight.
# Drain.
# Add 2 cups water, mustard, pepper, salt, onions, brown sugar, molasses, pickle juice.
# Boil, covered, for about 1½ hours. (Beans should be wrinkled.)
# Heat oven to 250 °F.
# Cut salt pork into ½” cubes.
# Place in 2-quart bean pot.
# Cover with hot beans and their liquid.
# Sprinkle with pepper.
# Bake 8 hrs. covered, until very tender.
# When beans are baking for 6 hrs. add about ¾ cup water or just enough to cover. 
# Uncover the pot the last ½ hour.
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