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Article: Down-home baked beans are back in style
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 8, 1990
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New Englanders have always gotten plenty of mileage from those
pots full of beans that baked all day Saturday. First served hot
Saturday evening with brown bread and cole slaw, the beans were
served again for breakfast Sunday morning. The remainder became a
part of Sunday's lunch.
But now, bean pots could come into vogue from Maine to Florida
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Humble dried beans - the same ones your grandmother used - have
been blessed by researchers who have labeled them as "excellent
sources of dietary fiber." That puts them in the same league with
oat bran and rice bran.
Changes in cooking methods have helped with the flatulence
problem that gave beans ...