A common recipe includes: 1 pound navy or pea beans 1 large onion, chopped 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1/3 cup light brown sugar 1/4 cup molasses 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste And no, they're not just from Boston. Portland, Maine makes AWESOME beans (B&M). The key is the molasses! MMMMM Beans beans the magical fruit The more you eat the more you toot The more you toot the better you feel And now you are ready for another meal!

It took me 25 yearxs to get this recipe from my mother-in-law: Boston Baked Beans 1 lb Dry white navy pea beans 1 ½ qts Cold water 1 tsp Salt 2 cup Brown sugar 1 med Sliced onion 1 tsp Dry mustard ¼ cup Molasses ¼ lb Salt pork Rinse and pick over beans Add beans to cold water; bring to boiling; simmer for 2 minutes; remove from heat and let stand for 1 hour [ALTERNATE: add beans to cold water and let stand overnight] Add 1 tsp. of salt and simmer beans for approx 1 hour, until tender. [CROCK POT METHOD] Drain beans reserving 1 ¾ cup of the liquid, Add sugar, onion, mustard and molasses. Take ½ of salt pork and chop, grind or slice thin. Leave other half as 1 piece Add all ingredients to crock pot, add additional water if necessary to cover beans cook slow for approx 18 hours (10:00 – 11:00 pm to 4:00 – 5:00 pm next day) Stir 2-3 times during cooking, adding additional water as necessary. I was on the Cape last week and introduced the natives to New Mexico Green Chile, so it's only right that I share my Boston Baked Beans with New Mexicans!

I do believe that Boston Baked Beans was one of the early satples of the settlers in the Boston area. The English who settled here brought the general idea from England and a restaurant in downtown Boston began making them. It is a baked beans recipe of navy or red beans using molasses. Ingredients are put into a pot and baked. The stuff you buy at the grocery store is a poor example but look up Boston Baked Beans using a crock Pot and you will come close to the original taste. It is really good and a high protein side dish. Paulete

It is a recipe for beans that originated here in Boston from colonial days. Yes they came from Boston but you can feel free to cook them wherever you are.

I like the candy. Sooo good:)

- Boston Baked Beans, are baked beans from Boston and probably have their origin in French Cassoulet. - Original Boston Baked Beans are a candy made by a Chicago company. 1) "Baked beans is a dish consisting of beans baked (or, despite the name, usually stewed) in a sauce. Traditional cuisines of many regions claim such recipes as typical specialities, for example: Boston baked beans Jersey bean crock Guernsey bean jar Cassoulet Feijoada New Ireland baked beans Quebec-style baked beans are often prepared with maple syrup. Bean-hole beans, traditionally from Northern New England and Quebec, cooked in a covered fire pit in the ground for up to two days British cuisine claims beans on toast as a teatime favourite, and baked beans may form part of a Full English breakfast Beans cooked in barbecue sauce (or a similarly flavoured sauce) are a traditional side-dish in a United States barbecue. "Frank and beans", a recipe where hot dogs are cut up and cooked in the same sauce as the baked beans. Also referred to as "Beanee Weenee", the brand name under which it is sold by Van Camp's. Most commercial tinned baked beans such as Heinz are made from haricot beans, also known as Boston Beans or Navy Beans, a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris, and sold in a sauce. In the United Kingdom, tomato sauce is most commonly used. A similar dish is Pork and Beans." "According to alternative traditions, sailors brought cassoulet from the south of France, or the regional bean stew recipes from northern France and the Channel Islands. Most probably, a number of regional bean recipes coalesced and cross-fertilised in North America and ultimately gave rise to the baked bean culinary tradition familiar today." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_beans Recipe examples: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Boston-Baked-Beans/Detail.aspx http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/5431 http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_8668,00.html 2) "Original Boston Baked Beans are sugar-coated peanut candies created by the Ferrara Pan Candy Company in the 1930s. Since their inception, the term "Boston baked beans" has become a colloquial term used in the candy industry to describe any sugar-coated peanut candy product." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Boston_Baked_Beans "The Ferrara Pan Candy Company is a Chicago, Illinois, based candy company that makes a variety of popular candies. Examples of their popular confections include Lemonheads, Jawbreakers, Atomic Fireballs, Original Boston Baked Beans, Alexander the Grape, and Red Hots. According to the Ferrara Pan Candy Company website, the company was created in 1908 by Salvatore Ferrara, Salvatore Buffardi and Anello Pagano. The company still exists at its original location: 2200 West Taylor Street in the City of Chicago. Ferrara Pan originally created and sold sugar-coated almonds." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrara_Pan_Candy_Company Further information: http://www.ferrarapan.com/html/bb_history.html