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Baked Beans
 Baked Beans
© Denzil Green
American Baked Beans will generally have salt port or back and molasses or maple syrup in them. English Baked Beans use a tomato sauce instead of molasses.
History
The earliest American cookbooks list recipes for boiled beans, but not baked. Either the colonists may have picked up the idea of further cooking beans by baking from the Indians, or sailors returning home to New England may have picked up the technique from North Africa or the Spanish Jews, who made "Sabbath beans" (Baked Beans that could be made ahead and reheated on the Sabbath).
It is certain, though, that man has been baking beans for millennia. Bangalore in India is an anglicized version of 'Benda Kalooru', meaning Baked Beans. The story is that a king, Veera Ballalla, become lost and famished during a hunting trip in 1120 AD. An old woman in the forest fed him Baked Beans, and he later built a town on the site and named it "Baked Beans" (though some sources say it may actually refer to "boiled beans"). Boiled or baked, you do well to be sceptical of food legends so old that have so much detail -- most of them are, well, full of beans.
Baked Beans became very popular in New England and especially Boston. Very observant puritan women would make them ahead on Saturday, so that they could avoid cooking on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath.
The Heinz company was producing Baked Beans with tomato sauce in America by the early 1900s, and very shortly after that they were imported into Britain. By 1928, Heinz had to set up a factory there to keep up with the demand. In 1999, Heinz UK introduced the easy-open pull-top lid on their cans of Baked Beans. The turquoise used on Heinz Baked Beans tins in the UK is trademarked.
See Also
Navy Beans
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