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Article: Baked beans: Serve this All-American dish for the Fourth
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
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- July 4, 2007
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As you plan your Fourth of July menu, consider the All-American dish: baked beans. Most of us don't take the time to bake them, so a lazy Fourth of July is a good day to savor an American favorite.
There are so many ways to prepare baked beans, beginning with dry beans or canned beans flavored with sugar, brown sugar or molasses and slow-baked in the oven.
Boston baked beans are probably the most famous because this dish has been made since colonial days, when the city was a major producer of rum, according to The Good Home Cookbook, edited by Richard Perry (Collector's Press, $29.95). Sugar cane harvested in the West Indies was turned into molasses and shipped to Boston to be made into ...