Lima Beans Baked With Salt Pork Recipe 1 ingredients

To prepare this Lima Beans Baked With Salt Pork Recipe 1, first parboil one quart of lima beans with half a pound of salt pork. Take out the pork, and score it in slices for serving. Then turn the beans into a baking-dish. Set the pork in the center, and bake until the beans are tender. Do not have the beans too moist when ready for the oven. Cover the dish for a time with an agate plate, then remove the plate to crisp the beans and pork. Use with the pork beans that are rather old and require at least two hours' cooking. Dried beans soaked over night in cold water may be used after an hour of parboiling. Parboil young, tender beans about twenty minutes. Add butter, pepper, and salt, and bake nearly an hour. Do not use pork with young beans, unless it be first cooked by itself two or more hours.