New England baked beans from The Bean Book: 100 Recipes for Cooking with All Kinds of Beans, from the Rancho Gordo Kitchen (page 216) by Steve Sando

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    Can substitute navy beans or Great Northern beans for yellow eye beans, and salt pork for thick-cut bacon. Recipe calls for dried beans.

  • colinary on May 28, 2026

    Used navy beans. Did the standard sweetener. Chicken broth instead of water. Might've added a little more water through cooking as they were slightly on dry side.

  • dj0447 on February 02, 2026

    This recipe is absolutely delicious, but I recommend doubling the ketchup/brown sugar/maple syrup mixture for saucer beans. My New Englander husband loved them!

  • imaluckyducky on March 31, 2025

    5 stars - perfect as written. Nice balance between the savory and sweet, this is definitely not the cloyingly sweet of Busch’s baked beans. Used cranberry beans which had thicker skins than what I am used to but was still delicious. Thickened with smooshing some of the beans

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