Recipe: Baked Beans (18-quart roaster oven - serves 25)

BAKED BEANS

1 lb. dried great northern navy beans
1 lb. dried pinto or brown beans
1 lb. dried black-eyed peas
6 cups hot water
2 cups dark molasses
1 cup cider vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
1 lb. thick-sliced bacon, cut up
2 large onions, diced
2 tbsp. mustard
1 cup ketchup

Add beans to unheated Cookwell (in 18-quart roaster oven); cover with 4 quarts hot water. Let stand several hours or overnight; drain.

Preheat Roaster Oven to 300 degrees F.

Add remaining ingredients, except ketchup, to beans. Stir in 6 Cups hot water.

Cover; bake 2 hours or until beans are tender.

Reduce temperature to 250 degrees F. Stir; cover and bake 5 hours.

Stir in ketchup; cover and bake 1 hour.

TO HOLD:
Reduce temperature to 200 degrees F. Add hot water or tomato juice if beans begin to dry.

Recipe may easily be doubled to serve 50.

Servings: 25
Source: Nesco