| Show concerning THE BEAN QUESTION recipes from a It eglon where deans beans can never ne lie Cool Coo ced iced what is your recipe for baking beans the question was asked of several individuals of extended experience landlord allen alien of the hotel hamilton who sat over against the big and finely painted screen that adorns his dining room kind and bears an excellent likeness of that lover of good things louis leib inthe makeup of falstaff Fal had no decided opinion as to baking beans but his former business partner who was with him said 1 I bake them I 1 would try fry them boil them three or four hours then drain them put them in a spider with salt pork and fry then them to a rich brown john snelling elling the warm personal friend of senator mahone maho e said down south they have a habit babit of cooking the beans according to the approved method and then mashing them I 1 am fond of beans but I 1 dil dia not learn how to bake them until I 1 came here I 1 soak them until they become soft put them in an earthen jar with a little pork season with popper pepper and salt turn a little molasses on the top of them put the jar in the oven and let the beans bake I 1 always cook them myself and I 1 imagine I 1 know how to do it well 1 I have not yet become thoroughly acquainted a quain ted with the baked bean 17 sald said hill bill nye up in laramie Larn mie where I 1 lam held office fice baked beans were unobtainable at any price the attitude altitude of laramie Larn mio like the prices that rule there is very high and it was found impossible to boll boil beans there with any degree of success let alone baking them the tha only way they could couill be ba cooked was to put P ut a little sal cratus in the water in which 1 aich they were boiling but under the best conditions the beans are liable to be about as lard hard and unpalatable as marbles they have a tradition in germany that beans can only bo be properly cooked when soaked in clear spring water tho the host of heims restaurant on twenty seventh street choso whoso recipe did not materially differ from that of the other epicures epi oPi cures was very particular as to the manner that they should bo be and ana prepared p 1 1 before baking ile ho soaks them about 1 low ar hours and then bakes them in a dripping pan with a little piece of s scored c or ed pork mr hill tho the theatrical manager who is a typical yankee and an adopt at baking beans believes that they should bo be soaked s or parboiled drained gina and then put in a sheet iron box bos A holo bole in ill tho the ground should be hollowed out and a firs bre built in it M ettien hen tho the burning has gono gone on long enough to make the desired degree of heat beat remove the brands put in the box of beans with a piece of pork I 1 on top of it cover up the box and let tile contents gradually but surely reach the desired sun degree ee of perfection new york evening |
