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Default Home made baked beans are GREAT!!

On Jun 17, 8:31*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
> Here's my "recipe":
>
> >Just made another batch of my baked beans too! Sorry, no exact recipe,

>
> just wing it by rinsing and soaking overnight 3.5 bags of black beans,
> chick peas, and kidney beans, then cooking for an hour or so in water,
> throw out the cook water and add water to cover beans, 4 or 5 bouillon
> cubes, 12oz of tomato paste, some brown sugar, cayenne, paprika,
> molasses, bay leaves, and 2 huge chopped red onions and 5 or 6 garlics
> sweated in 5 thick strips of bacon's grease, then the bacon too! YUM!
>
> The molasses did the trick, I think! I've been making them for a while
> but just got molasses recently and put a good dollop in my latest
> batch of baked beans!
>
> Bush's, eat your heart out! HA!
>
> John Kuthe...


How long did you bake em and at what temp? Did you get a lot of nice
'sauce'? Were the beans all tender? My big goal is life is to turn
out decent baked beans.