Baked Beans
| 1 quart beans 1 scant teaspoon baking soda 3 tablespoons molasses ¼ pound salt pork ¼ pound bacon 3 tablespoons vinegar ½ teaspoon mustard salt and pepper to taste 3 tablespoons catsup |
Soak beans over night in luke warm water with soda. In morning pour off water and wash in cold water. Now place salt pork in bottom of bean crock and put layers of beans on top, sprinkle with pepper and salt, when filled nearly to top put on slices of bacon.
Now blend mustard with vinegar, now add molasses and catsup and pour over the beans and fill up and over the top with luke warm water. Bake in a slow oven for at least six hours, longer if necessary.
| Creamed Mushrooms
To one pound of cleaned and well strainedmushrooms, add ¼ lb. of fresh butter. Allowmushrooms to cook in butter about five minutes.Sprinkle enough flour to thicken. When well mixed, pour in gently a little morethan ½ pint of sweet cream. Allow it to boil,add salt and pepper to taste. Mrs. Enoch Rauh. |
