Boston Baked Beans.
Soak beans over night, in the morning pour off the water and parboil with ¹⁄₂ teaspoon of soda until half tender then pour off the water and cover again with hot water and small piece of salt pork, cook until tender then remove from the kettle and put them in a bean pot or earthen dish, add a little mustard, salt 1 tablespoonful of molasses, bake 8 hours, keeping them covered with hot water until the last hour when they will brown.