(Crockpot) All-day Boston baked beans

By ukiahgal67

Ingredients

• 1 lb bag of small white beans (called navy beans)
• 1 large onion
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 chunk of fresh ginger
• 4 Tbs. molasses, or 4-5 Tbs. dark brown sugar
• 1 chunk of smoked bacon or ham, about3 oz and/or 4-5 dried chipotle
• 2-3 bay leaves
• 2 tsp. salt
• Several grinds of black pepper
• 1 tsp. dried mustard powder, or 1 Tbs. prepared mustard
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp. ground cumin
• 1 tsp. cayenne pepper
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• water

Preparation

Step 1

Slice the onion. Smash and roughly chop the garlic. Peel and grate the ginger.

Put all the ingredients into the pot. Pour in water to about 1 1/2 inch above the level of the beans. Mix well.

Put your pot in or turn it on, depending on what approach you're taking. Set the timer to 6 hours. At that point, check on the pot - the beans may be a bit hard, or not, depending on how dry they were to start with. Usually it needs at least 8 hours for the beans to get really tender and sort of caramel-colored. Add water as needed if it looks dry. (If you can't be there to check at the 6 hour mark, just add more water to start with so it doesn't dry up.)