Grandma's Recipe
@GardenGerty (169479)
United States
April 14, 2022 6:28am CST
Several years ago hubby's sister made a family cookbook. She included "Grandma's recipe for baked beans.
Since she was originally from Boston, I guess they are Boston Baked Beans.
I am more of an Oklahoma Pinto beans and cornbread person.
This deserves some Boston Brown Bread, but I do not have the ingredients or time.
I know beans are an economical food cooked in lots of forms around the world. What is your bean preference. I count meals like dal as beans and I am not sure what is in them.
We can have a truly delicious day.
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@Traceyjayne (11397)
• United Kingdom
14 Apr 22
What a brilliant idea. The recipes can be passed down through the generations.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Yes, I am sure they can. This is from one sister and I am not sure who she made the cookbooks for other than her other sisters and my hubby. She probably included cousins as she has recipes from cousins.
). What is Oklahoma pinto beans like?@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Start with the pintos, of course and just boil the life out of them, with usually ham bone or ham hock for seasoning. Leave it fairly soupy and serve with cornbread.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Apr 22
@GardenGerty Wow, no sweetner (I often think that baked beans have brown sugar or honey or bbq sauce)? I'd rather it be on the savory side - sounds good!
@wolfgirl569 (135819)
• Marion, Ohio
14 Apr 22
I usually fix a mixture of soup beans
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
For several years I would make "16 bean soup" but actually one bean was barley and one was brown rice. I forget what the rest of the recipe involved, but by the time you had all those beans bought up you had 16 pounds of soup beans to put in jars and give to friends.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Field peas is a new one on me? Is that the same as black eyed peas?
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
I have neveer had those. I imagine they are good. Do you use a particular spice on them?
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@sinari (4995)
• Indonesia
16 Apr 22
@GardenGerty I don't use any particular seasoning. My mother just fried it using oil. Then we eat it as a snack while chatting in the afternoon, or while watching TV with the family.
@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
14 Apr 22
Oh I love beans. My husband and kiddo won’t touch them. I love baked beans, bean soup, chili with beans, and add chick peas to a salad.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
I eat all kinds of beans, but really have only liked garbanzos as hummus.
@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
We eat a large variety of beans. I use pintos in my chili, usually because I have some cooked up, but the red ones are better.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
14 Apr 22
I love the idea of a family cookbook. My cousin made a small booklet of his mother's recipes that I cherish.
I love most beans, especially dried beans like pintos, black eyed peas, great Northerns, and Navy beans. I make baked beans with a can of pork and beans and add some Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, microwave them, so technically they're not baked, lol.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Mine were in a crockpot, so also not baked. But good. Made with Great Northerns because I had them on hand. The recipe actually calls for Navy beans, which are smaller.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Yes, it is. It is like a history lesson in food.
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
14 Apr 22
I used to eat baked beans but since going on the macrobiotic diet I'm trying not to eat stuff out of tins and cook from scratch. I used to eat some beans that at the moment the name escapes me but I couldn't find them in the shops and had to get them from Amazon. I'm going to have to look up some recipes with beans and see what I can do.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
15 Apr 22
These were from scratch, starting with the dried beans. I buy a commercial brand called Bushs Baked Beans.
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
15 Apr 22
@GardenGerty I see. That's very good. I hope you enjoyed them. 
