Coca-Cola Baked Beans

Even before Elizabeth Candler Graham published her offbeat Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola in 1994, one of the South’s quintessential beverages had been used far and wide not only to baste hams and make all sorts of casseroles, puddings, and even cookies, but also to produce these unique baked beans. I’ve had the beans sweetened with molasses or sorghum instead of brown sugar and doctored with bell peppers or pickle relish. Whatever the concoction, the