Name: Baked beans and bacon
Yield: Feeds six
Ingredients: 500 g (1 lb) white beans; 1 bay leaf; 4 thick slices of smoky bacon, speck or kaiserfleisch; ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper; 400 g (14 oz) canned tomatoes, mashed; 1 tsp sea salt; 1 tbsp brown sugar; 2 cloves; 1 onion; 1 extra tbsp brown sugar; 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 onion, finely chopped; 4 tbsp maple syrup

Preparation info

Feeds
six

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Do not wake up in the morning and spontaneously decide to have this for breakfast. Instead, wake up yesterday morning and decide to have it for breakfast today. (Okay, okay, or wake up today and have it tomorrow). Home-made baked beans are a billion times better than the canned variety, but with the same alchemy of sweet and smoky flavours.