Maple Syrup Rum Baked Beans

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Oct 14, 2001

This wonderful-sounding baked bean recipe has whole cored apples baked in syrup on top of the beans. In all my searching for baked bean recipes, I've never seen a recipe like it.

I found this recipe by accident in the archives of some non-cooking Internet newsgroup. The person who posted it--whose name is lost in the ether--wrote that she had never seen such a recipe in any cookbook and that she had no idea where her mother got the idea to put apples on top.

It certainly strikes me as a great idea. I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but it's high on my list for future pots of beans.

Maple Syrup Rum Baked Beans

4 cups dried navy beans
12 cups cold water
1 teaspoon soda
1 pound salt pork (with both fat and lean meat), sliced
1 large onion
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 cup maple syrup
1 Tablespoon coarse salt
4 cored apples -- unpeeled
1 cup maple or light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup rum, optional

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Cover the beans with 12 cups cold water and soak them overnight. In the morning, pour the whole thing in a large saucepan. Add 1 teaspoon soda and more cold water to cover the beans if necessary. Bring to a boil, uncovered, then boil until some of the skins come off when you blow on the beans.

Line a bean pot with the sliced pork, then pour in the beans and their water. Roll the onion in the dry mustard until all of the mustard sticks to it, then bury it in the middle of the beans. Pour the maple syrup and coarse salt on top.

Bake 4 to 5 hours in your preheated oven. In the last hour of cooking, cover the beans with whole cored apples, placed as close together as possible. Cream together the sugar and butter and spread the mixture on top of the apples. This forms a most delicious topping when the beans are baked. Pour the rum on top just before serving.

Of course, this is not my favorite baked bean recipe, although it is a good one. Click over to The Best Baked Beans in the World to read about and see the recipe for the absolutely finest baked beans known to man.

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