Old-Fashioned Baked Beans French-Canadian Style

Here is the recipe for Old Fashioned French-Canadian Style Baked Beans that I promised I'd share.  It is a wonderful recipe which involves 7 hours of baking. Anything that one bakes for 7 hours with molasses and brown sugar and bacon just has to be wonderful!  

The first step is to get the beans ready.  Use navy beans and sort them, removing any shrivelled or damaged beans.  Then soak them for 24 hours.  After that boil them until they are tender and split.   Once they are done, drain them.  Then put them in a big pot, or you can mix them in a bowl and then put them in the pot, like I did.

 

Put in chopped onion.  I also put in garlic.  I will share the recipe video at the end of this post for all the measurements, etc.

 Then I added some molasses, ketchup and a bit of bbq sauce.  The recipe called for 1 and 1/2 cups of ketchup, so I did about half and half with bbq sauce and ketchup.  I incorporated several recipes, and took the parts of each that I liked best.  This is a great recipe to personalize with whatever you like best.

 Then brown sugar, cider vinegar and mustard powder.  Again, mustard powder is from a different recipe, but I chose to use it instead of regular mustard.

 Then bacon that I pre-cooked (from another recipe) but this recipe says you can just chop it up and add it.  They also recommend salt pork.  Then you add some water.

 I added some bacon in on the top because that is what they recommended.  It is nice to find those pieces of bacon in the beans.  Doesn't it look yummy?

 Then cover for some slow baking on low, 250-300 degrees F. for 6 - 7 hours.  Check on them every hour, add water if they are too dry and molasses if they need thickening. 

 

This is how they came out.  They were great the first day, but by the second day the flavours were really fantastic.

 

Here is the link for the video.  Old Fashioned French Canadian Baked Beans.