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July the 4th Baked Beans


Three 28 ounce cans of Bushes Best Original beans

One cup, of fine diced Vidalia onion
� cup each, fine diced red and green bell pepper
1/2 cup molasses
One tablespoon , hot Hungarian Paprika
A dash salt, white pepper to taste
� pound thick cut bacon, cut into small pieces

Method:
Pour beans into a cast iron Dutch oven
In a heavy saucepan, cook the bacon pieces until the fat is rendered. Put cooked bacon into the beans.
Put the diced onion and pepper into two tablespoons of the hot bacon fat, and cook until tender, drain, add to the beans. Mix the saut�ed vegetables well with the beans.

Mix well , then add the Paprika, salt, pepper, and molasses. Stir well.

Cook in oven 2 to 3 hours at 250 degrees. Stir a few times. Do not overcook.

My grandmother's "Calico Beans" recipe....she wrote it down about 40 years ago.
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1 medium onion
3/4 cup ketchup
5 Tbsp vinegar
6 Tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
Package of all beef weiners OR 1 lb. lean ground beef
1/3 lb.-to-1/2 lb. bacon
Large can (28 oz)- baked beans
15 oz can - red kidney beans
15 oz can - baby lima beans
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Dice & saute onion until light brown. Add ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard and garlic powder and simmer until well-blended. Put in oven-safe pot with lid. (We use a stoneware-type bean pot with lid and it works great.) Cut up & brown weiners or ground beef. Drain and place in pot. Brown bacon, drain, crumble and put in pot. (I actually prefer a combo....I use 1/2 pkg of weiners and the ground beef + bacon. Having plenty of meat in the dish helps, since I don't like too much sauce in mine. Browning the cut-up hotdogs is also key.) Add the beans to pot, put lid on and bake at 350 for 45 min.