Granny Fearing's Kentucky Baked Beans

By

Dean Fearing

  • 6

Ingredients

  • 21 oz Can pork and beans
  • 1 lg Onion -- finely chopped
  • 12 oz Heinz ketchup
  • 1 tb Yellow mustard
  • 1 1/8 c Light brown sugar -- packed
  • 1/8 c Molasses
  • 1/8 c Heinz sweet gherkin pickle
  • Juice 1 t Apple cider vinegar
  • Salt -- to taste Ground black pepper -- to Taste 1/2 lb Smoked bacon -- thickly
  • Sliced

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine pork and beans, onion, ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, molasses, gherkin juice, vinegar, salt, and pepper to taste in a 2-quart casserole. Top with strips of bacon in a crisscross pattern. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours. Remove foil for last 30 minutes of baking.

Serve hot or cold. Beans may be prepared up to one day ahead and refrigerated. Warm in 350 degree oven for no more than 20 minutes.