Baked Beans

Oh how I love good baked beans. It surprises me how hard it is to find good baked beans. They either taste more like a Ranch Bean or too tomato sauce tasting. I like a sweet and smokey baked bean. Not too heavy on tomato flavor and not a spicy chili powder flavor of Ranch Beans. I think this one is just the thing.

Baked Beans

4 bacon slices ( I use applewood smoked bacon. It is the best)

1 small onion, diced

4 (15 oz.) can pork in beans, drained

1/2 Cup firmly packed brown sugar

3/4 Cup ketchup

1/4 Cup molasses

1 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp. dry mustard

Cook bacon in cast iron skillet till crisp. Remove to drain on paper towel and crumble. Saute onion in bacon grease till transluciant, about 7 minutes. Stin in drained beans, brown sugar, ketchup, molasses, Worcestershire sauce and dry mustard. Stir together well. Now you can add the bacon back in now or wait and top the cooked beans when done. Its up to you. Place skillet in oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or so. The longer you cook them the thicker the final product will be. I actually would cook them less. Just watch them and take them out when they are to your liking. Stir them half way through. Only stir again if they look like they are looking like they are too cooked. If that happens you can also just pull them out of the oven and call them done. You want them to thicken. After that they can be removed from the oven and topped with the bacon pieces.