Before she bakes them in an old-fashioned stoneware bean pot, Alabama native Sandy Ivey enlivens her beans with juice from her "under the sink" homemade sweet pickles.
Ingredients
- 2 28-oz. cans pork and beans
- 1 1⁄2 cups light brown sugar
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1⁄2 cup yellow mustard
- 1⁄2 cup molasses
- 1⁄4 cup juice from a jar of sweet dill pickles
- 1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 4 strips bacon, halved crosswise
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Instructions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 400°. Put the pork and beans, brown sugar, ketchup, mustard, molasses, and pickle juice into a large ovenproof pot or bean pot and stir well to combine.
Step 2
Top the bean mixture with onion slices and lay the bacon over the top in a single layer. Bake, uncovered, until the bacon is crisp and the beans are hot and bubbling, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly. Stir the onions and bacon into the beans before serving.
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