Now that I have obtained Madame’s approval of Tom Kerridge’s baked beans recipe (PROPER BAKED BEANS ON SODA BREAD TOAST - TOM KERRIDGE), I fancy trying it with other sorts of beans.
Haricots pinto, cannellini, canneberges, lupini have all caught my eye (I think the beans have to be that shape, and Madame won’t eat butter beans), but I’m open to suggestions. And to any other beany recipe.
You can make fabulous chinesish baked black beans, usual baked beans recipe (I use a very basic 1940s one *see below) but add miso garlic ginger a little bit of chilli 5 spice powder and leave out the mustard.
I use an old Gordon Ramsay recipe for baked beans.
I buy either leclerc or HyperU own brand ‘Haricots blancs à la tomate’
and add a big dollop of Heinz tomato sauce and a large knob of butter. I serve the beans on toast topped with a couple of rashers of crispy bacon for a quick and easy lunch or supper dish.
why is poitrine fume classed as “E”???
Salt, fat and nitrates?
it’s so long since I bought bacon… although we were thinking of looking for “something different” for Christmas breakfast.
My version of BB used saucisse de Montbéliard instead of bacon.
Here’s the recipe from another old cookery book, near as dammit the same as the one I was thinking of but heavier on the molasses
This one was published in 1962 rather than wartime but I suspect it was lifted from a yet older book.
Wow. 454g of beans for 3-4 people! TK’s recipe uses 400g for 6 (with more onions, 800g of chopped tomatoes, but less meat, and vinegar and sugar instead of treacle).
This one prefers * ½cup dark molasses or maple syrup, preferably Grade B’ though I’ve no idea about the merits of otherwise of ‘grade B’ maple syrup.
But here’s a traditional recipe -
Funnily enough though I’ve spent a lot of time in Beantown over the years, I’ve never had Boston beans there - Brazilian, Japanese and obviously Italian etc, but not BBB.
Rose Elliot’s “The Bean Book” has some brilliant bean recipes in it, one of our favourites being her refried beans recipe. Her variant on Boston Baked Beans is good too (definitely vegetarian).
Good to find someone else who enjoys the under-appreciated work of Rose Elliot 
See how they get food labelling wrong.
Salt, essential for life, you can eat 10x daily recommended amount with barely a ripple on the blood pressure. (Note this is different if you already have high blood pressure)
Fat, no issues there, no association with heart disease.
Nitrates, as veg contains a large amount of nitrites and your body will convert into usable form this again is a bit of mis information.
I ran out of chick peas one day so made humous with butter beans, it worked.
I think I have a copy. It’s got a browny cover.
Now there’s a surprise! 
@Stella - I buy my bacon from these people as well as sausages and sausagemeat. I thoroughly recommend all their products. The French poitrine is nothing like the real stuff but when I’ve run out, it’s what we have in its place.
If you hurry, you can make it in time for a delivery before Christmas.
Thank you for the kind thought.
But I’ll be having a word with our local butcher.
He has some amazing delicacies on offer and this might be a good moment to splurge and enjoy some of them.
Unfortunately, deliveries have been closed now for this year.
I’ve tried them but didn’t like the sausages and the bacon was watery.
Bulldog produce is much better but delivery is expensive although they do delivery rounds regularly which is free but of course you have to live closeish to one.
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