Maple Baked Beans
Eastern Woodlands,US

1 lb. dried beans
6 strips salt pork or bacon
1 cup maple syrup
1 tsp dry mustard
salt, optional 

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Cook beans. 

Place salt pork on bottom and sides of a 1 1/2 quart baking dish.

Combine beans, syrup, mustard, and salt, if using. Pour into baking dish.

Bake 300 degrees fahrenheit for 2 hrs. Uncover and bake 30 min. longer. 

Serves six.

In the Eastern Woodlands as elsewhere, pork fat replaced bear after its introduction by the Spanish.