Old-fashioned, down-home Boston (Mountain) baked beans from Bean by Bean: A Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes for Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans...Even Sweet Beans! by Crescent Dragonwagon

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  • Czygany on April 09, 2026

    Excellent beans! Played a little loose with the recipe. We had about 3lb of various beans to use up (equal parts Appaloosa, Anasazi, and Mayocoba) so we tripled the recipe. A brave thing to do for never having made it before, but I’ve been cooking out of Crescent’s books for 25 years, and she has yet to have a recipe fail me. It took 2 lg and 1 sm bean pots to fit them all with some smooshing and a few extra scattered onions on top. The sm bean pot came out perfect in 6 hours, the large needed an extra hour plus. My partner is allergic to soy, so I subbed tahini for equal amounts of the miso, plus 1 tbls of coconut aminos for each batch. (Possibly a bit more - when we tasted the liquid after mixing it up, it needed a little umph, some extra dashes of aminos was the missing thing.) Held back 1/3 of the salt to make up for the aminos. Added about 10 dashes of Lazy Kettle liquid smoke for the tripled batch. Did have to add extra boiled water at about the 4hr mark. Came out phenomenally!

  • sayeater on October 05, 2023

    This is the best homemade baked bean recipe I've tried yet. I'll be honest, I grew up eating Bush's vegetarian baked beans from a can and loved them, so that's my ingrained palate preference. As I get older those have become a bit too syrupy sweet for me but this recipe hits all the right notes without being cloying AND with the benefit of those long cooked onions in it! I'm still vegetarian so I used her suggestion of subbing 2 T butter for the salt pork to give the extra richness and mouthfeel. I debated on adding a bit of liquid smoke but decided to stick to a recipe (for once). Used Rancho Gordo Cranberry beans in this and used the slow cook function on my instant pot to follow her slow cooker variation. There was still a lot of liquid so I used the saute function to cook down to a reasonable amount. Will definitely make these again and maybe even try baking in my outdoor oven that has a woodsmoke function. The fam enjoyed these as well, they have not been fans of past attempts.

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