As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Necessity is the Cherry of invention.
For Christmas I was going to make baked beans, but I did not have the time and I am trying to keep a budget on the electric in the bills around here in using the monther's old electric bean pot that took like 6 hours to make beans, and was a mess to clean up.
So I pulled out the Presto 40, ordered up from Kansas for a 1.50 and now I see those things are like 50 bucks base price.
Anyway, I am not going to do the bean recipe ..........ok as you are nags, but it is not like poor orphans do not have things to do like try and rest and not starve.
1 bag of Navy beans
5 cups water
1 slice bacon cut up
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1/3rd cup ketchup
2 tablespoons mustard
1/2 cup molasses
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
That is Boston Baked beans.
So I fired up the Presto to 15 pounds for 1 hour, brought the steam down, and still had too much liquid, so simmered it off for an hour, and ended up with good firm Boston Baked Beans in 1/3/rd the time.
I love good baked beans, but they do not come out of a can, and most people have no clue about good baked beans, or steamed beans. I love them cold on buttered white bread too.
Do not though buy those Great Northern Beans, as they are mushy, taste like dirt and the North Dakota Indians should have lost those seeds that Oscar Will reproduced. I hate Great Northern beans They are disgusting .
The Navy Pea Bean though is culinary. A perfect creation by God for the master races and for bean soup. Lord, a ham bone and Navy beans with a few bay leaves, salt, pepper, carrots and potatoes will produce thee epitome of peasant food, which for those who have created this ambrosia will light up at the words BEAN SOUP, and try to wrangle an invitation for supper until it is all devoured.
Again with butter bread as an accompaniment.
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OK that is how you get baked beans out of a hissy pot. I was stunned when TL and I were looking at Presto's for a replacement handle on a Model 7 16 quart in how expensive those Presto's are now. I am glad as they will last 1000 years and beyond. I like the old 40's, and I picked another one up for like 3 bucks at the thrift store which I used at Christmas for wild rice, and the reason I picked it up as the cooking weights were like 25 bucks and I am not going to pass them up for that price......including two trivets and two gaskets. It was an investment child, don't you know an investment when you see one?
That reminds me of the old man. Some pipeline workers were on the place one time, and they said, "Geez you got allot of junk!!!" The old man retorted, "That's equipment boy!!!".
After the mother was so beasty, I actually miss that old bastard at times, and wonder just how nuts that woman made that crazy sociopath, as Lord was she a frustration
That reminds me of a friend we know named Steve who when he found out mom died, and we talked for a bit about our trials, he said, "I bet that woman could be a hand full if she chose to be".
Spoken like a true bachelor with woman radar on his scope.
OK enough stories as what do you think orphan girls are click a mouse and they run for days on stories to entertain you?
Nuff Said
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