Boston Baked Beans, Slow Cooker
also called baked beans · Boston beans · molasses baked beans · slow cooker baked beans · crockpot boston baked beans
- The Slow Cooker
- serves 8
- recipe says 9 hr
- Rice, Beans & Grains
Also written for Instant Pot (1 to wash), the plain way (4 to wash).
Three ways to read this recipe
The table
| The beans are soaked overnight and boiled hard for half an hour first. Molasses and vinegar stall a hard bean forever | |||
| 1 lb(450 g; soaked overnight)dried navy beans | parboil 30 min, drain | cook on low, 8 hr | reduce on high, lid off, 30 min |
| 6 cups(1.4 L)water | |||
| 1/3 cup(80 mL)molasses | whisk | ||
| 1/4 cup(50 g)dark brown sugar | |||
| 1 tspdry mustard | |||
| 1 Tbscider vinegar | |||
| 1 1/2 tspkosher salt | |||
| 2 cups(475 mL)boiling water | |||
| 6 oz(170 g; rind scored, buried in the middle)salt pork | |||
| 1 medium(chopped)yellow onion | |||
What to lay out
Everything the recipe asks for, sitting under the step that eats it. Tick each one as you measure it.13 things to get out.
Pans and tools
Before anything else
2parboil 30 min, drain
3whisk
4cook on low, 8 hr
goes in with what steps 2 and 3 made
Cooking it
Tap a step when it is done; the next one lights up.
The clock
- Start to finish
- at least 9 hr1 of 4 steps gives no time
- Needs you
- about 30 min
- If you get it wrong
- Narrow — pull the beans before the skins split and the molasses that follows holds them chalky for the whole day on the machine
- What you'll wash
- Four things — the slow cooker crock, the saucepan, a colander to drain the beans, a jug to whisk the molasses liquid in
- Does it keep
- 4 days — molasses beans keep improving, and a long wet cook leaves them loose enough to tighten to about right
parboil 30 min, drain
30 minwalk awayfrom the start
whisk
not timedfrom the start
cook on low, 8 hr
8 hrwalk away30 min in
reduce on high, lid off, 30 min
30 minneeds you(we think)8 hr 30 min in
- needs you
- you can walk away
- never timed
- we think
You'll need saucepan · slow cooker
See how it is written
>> title: Boston Baked Beans, Slow Cooker
>> category: Rice, Beans & Grains
>> tags: beans, molasses, salt pork, new england, slow cooker, crock pot
>> counters: The Slow Cooker
>> dish: boston-baked-beans
>> kit: Slow Cooker
>> aka: baked beans, Boston beans, molasses baked beans, slow cooker baked beans, crockpot boston baked beans
>> servings: 8
>> time: 9 hr
>> slack: narrow — pull the beans before the skins split and the molasses that follows holds them chalky for the whole day on the machine
>> washing-up: the slow cooker crock, the saucepan, a colander to drain the beans, a jug to whisk the molasses liquid in
>> keeps: 4 days — molasses beans keep improving, and a long wet cook leaves them loose enough to tighten to about right
The beans are soaked overnight and boiled hard for half an hour first. Molasses and vinegar stall a hard bean forever.
>> step: parboil 30 min, drain
Simmer @dried navy beans{1%lb}(450 g; soaked overnight) in @water{6%cups}(1.4 L) in a #saucepan{} for ~simmer{30%min}, until the skins split when you blow on a spoonful, then drain.
>> step: whisk
Whisk @molasses{1/3%cup}(80 mL), @dark brown sugar{1/4%cup}(50 g), @dry mustard{1%tsp}, @cider vinegar{1%Tbs}, @kosher salt{1 1/2%tsp} into @boiling water{2%cups}(475 mL).
>> step: cook on low, 8 hr
Slow cook @&(~2)parboiled beans{} with @&(~1)molasses liquid{}, @salt pork{6%oz}(170 g; rind scored, buried in the middle), @yellow onion{1%medium}(chopped) in a #slow cooker{} on low for ~slow cook{8%hr}, lid on.
>> step: reduce on high, lid off, 30 min
Reduce @&(~1)beans{} on high with the lid off for ~reduce{30%min}, until the liquid is a syrup that holds the trail of a spoon for a second.