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Family Recipe: Baked Beans with Pineapple and Bacon
· Gluten free · 10 servings
A family recipe is important, even if we don’t remember all the parts, because each attempt at its re-creation keeps us connected to the people who helped shape us. It happens each time we do that intimate, life-sustaining cooking and eating thing, especially when we do it from a place of memory.
Ingredients
Meat
• 8 thick slices Bacon, smoked
Produce
• 1 bunch Green onions
• 1 lb Navy beans or great northern beans, dried
• 1 cup Pineapple
• 1 15-ounce can Tomatoes
Condiments
• 1/4 cup Molasses
• 2 1/2 tsp Mustard, dry
Baking & Spices
• 1/4 cup Brown sugar, dark
• 1 tsp Salt