Vermont Baked Beans with Maple Sugar (1939)

• 2 cups yellow-eyed beans
• 1/2 lb heavy bacon
• 8 to 10 tbspns maple sugar
• 4 cups boiling water
• 1 medium sliced onion
• 2 tspns salt
• Baking soda

Soak beans overnight. Drain, then boil with 1/2 teaspoon soda to quart of water. Simmer slowly until skins burst.

Drain, and add bacon, maple sugar, onion, and salt. Cover bean pot and simmer for 5 hours or more.

(Origin - "Out of Vermont Kitchens" compiled by Trinity Mission of Trinity Church of Rutland, Vermont, and The Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church of Burlington, Vermont; 1939. This recipe was from Mrs. Oliver D. Ward.)

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