Cold Outside? Home made steaming hot Baked Beans (Navy Beans) warm me up! I use a modern pressure cooker like Instant Pot. But add some wild game too.
There is a long tradition in the Hale family to make baked beans especially in winter.
But I cut out the laborious baking for several hours.
I just-recently began pressure cooking them. The secret of great bean making is soaking beans for many hours or overnight. Right?
I speed up the soak process by pressure cooking them for one minute and letting them rest for an hour.
Put a pound or so of dry beans in cooker, add water to cover by 2 inches with a tbsp kosher salt and 1 tsp baking soda (reduces gas) then use high pressure for 1 minute then shut off for 1 hour.
Then, rinse beans and put back in cooker.
In a separate 2 qt bowl, add 3 cups water, 1/3 cup molasses, 1/2c brown sugar,1tbsp Worcestershire, 1 1/4 tsp dry mustard, 1/2 tsp kosher salt, 1/4 tsp ground black pepper, One onion rough diced, 2 tsp dices garlic, 3 slices of rough chopped raw bacon.
Here, you can add very small cuts/cubes of some wild game say 1/4 lb for more protein. I like bear meat a bit more.
Then add all the ingredients to the beans into the cooker.
Pressure cook for 50 minutes.
It is done! Now release the steam pressure, open and enjoy! Done in 2 hours! Wow!!!
The sweet of molasses and sugar coupled with flavor of beans and bacon, game meat, Worcestershire, mustard and garlic simply blows my mind.
OMG- Makes 4 pints. Freeze in pint ball jars. To thaw place in cool water for one or 2 hours. Heat and eat. Great hot beans for breakfast with eggs and bacon, home fries and a hot cup of coffee. You have enough energy and protein to hunt in cold weather for many hours.
Warm Belly?
Go Hunting!