Simple Tastes - Baked Beans

"Cheerful cooks make every dish a feast." --MASSINGER.

Sometimes simple is best. Saving your money is easier when you prepare simple, easy to make foods at home. Eating healthy foods is easy and fun when you make them yourself!

The nutritional value of beans is time honored. And these baked beans taste delicious! Try some this weekend! ( Who has time to bake during the week? )


Pick over and wash well one quart of small white beans;
soak over night.

In the morning, pour off the water and cover with cold water.

After boiling one-half hour, drain them, and cover again with cold
water.

Boil the beans again, until cooked, but not broken.

Put them in a baking dish.

In the center of the baking dish place one pound salt pork (which has been parboiled and well gashed),

add: one tablespoonful of molasses,
one dash of cayenne pepper,
black pepper to taste.

Ordinarily the pork should salt the beans.

Cover with part of the liquor in which the pork has been parboiled, and bake three hours. Enjoy that wonderful aroma as these hearty and delicious baked beans are soaking up the flavors of the pork and molasses!

Who says eating healthy foods has to cost a bundle?

Chocolate Week

Celebrate Chocolate Week with some of your favorite chocolate treats! Enjoy some rich dark chocolate and enjoy the healthy antioxidants delivered by nature's sweet gift!

Time and experience have shown that chocolate, when carefully prepared, is an article of food as wholesome as it is agreeable! Chocolate is nourishing, easy to digest, and does not possess those qualities injurious to beauty as some might have you believe.

Some complain of being unable to digest chocolate; while others, on the contrary, pretend that it has not sufficient nourishment, and that the effect disappears too soon. It is probable that the former have only themselves to blame, and that the chocolate which they use is of bad quality or badly made; for good and well-made chocolate must suit every stomach which retains the slightest digestive power.

The best flavor to add to chocolate is vanilla; next to that, cinnamon. Beyond these two things one should use great caution, as it is very easy to spoil the fine natural flavor of the bean. Chocolate absorbs odors readily; therefore it should be kept in a pure, sweet atmosphere. As about eleven per cent. of the chocolate bean is starch, chocolate and cocoa are of a much finer flavor if boiled for a few minutes. Long boiling, however, ruins their flavor and texture.

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