Doctored Up Baked Beans

[Dave Lehnert]

At a family gathering we were talking about how we fix baked beans. Get a can and doctor them up.
How do you doctor up your baked beans?

Van Camps baked beans.
Mustard
Ketchup
bacon
Brown sugar

[Prashun Patel]

Onions and Indian spices like cumin and mustard seeds.

[Doug Dawson]

At a family gathering we were talking about how we fix baked beans. Get a can and doctor them up.
How do you doctor up your baked beans?

Van Camps baked beans.
Mustard
Ketchup
bacon
Brown sugar

Cut it out with the brown sugar, and add minced burger meat, it's more effective. When McDonalds stopped adding beef tallow to their frying oil, their fries immediately went down a notch, to become merely mundane. A little goes a long way. It doesn't have to be "chili", but it helps.

[Jim Koepke]

A recent reread of the labels on a lot of my favorite canned beans has made me adjust my eating habits.

My favorite doctoring of beans was with chili. To one can of Dennison's Chili ad ~1/4 cup (or more) of BBQ sauce and ~!/3 (or more) of Pace medium Picante Sauce.

Chopped onion and jalapeños to taste.

Good chili.

Now instead my chili is cooked up in a large batch using fresh meat and vegetables. Just as good, probably better for me.

jtk

[Rob Luter]

Add cubes of smoked pork belly or Texas style smoked brisket. Add some yellow mustard, brown sugar, and chopped onions. Bake in a bean crock, covered, for two or three hours. Never not yummy.

[Peter Kelly]

Not that much more effort to make them from scratch. The results are well worth it.

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[Bill Dufour]

I add green pickle relish to the finished product. A little cooking wine in the pot helps most stuff as well as seasoned pepper(the no salt kind). My wife convinced me to buy the hottest version of hot sauce. It costs no more and it lastslonger since you do not use as much. A little goes a long way.
Bil lD

[George Bokros]

Bush's original baked beans, some ketchup, onions, light brown sugar, some bacon.

[Mike Henderson]

Bush's original baked beans, some ketchup, onions, light brown sugar, some bacon.

This is how I do it. There's a difference between baked beans and chili and the way I make each is very different, including using different beans, and different cooking. Baked beans are (naturally) baked while chili is cooked on the stove.

Mike

[Adam Grund]

Bush's original baked beans, some ketchup, onions, light brown sugar, some bacon.

That’s how my mom made (makes) them, really the only way I’ve ever known. She drains the sauce off the canned beans too.
She never measures anything, and I’m Not a huge ketchup fan, so I’m always delighted when they’re on the sweeter side rather than soupy (ketchupy)
Said an old ex boyfriends mom when she was a teen taught her that recipe.

[Stephen Tashiro]

One of my least favorite dishes as a child was from a can that contained beans and little links of hot dogs. Does hat food have anything to do with baked beans?

[Mike Henderson]

One of my least favorite dishes as a child was from a can that contained beans and little links of hot dogs. Does hat food have anything to do with baked beans?

Beanie weenies. When I was in college I used to eat that. Cheap and quick.

There was a name for those little weenies in the can but I can't remember exactly what it was.

Mike

[Gary Ragatz]

LOML and I favor savory over sweet. I start with Bush's "less sugar" "lower sodium" variety and add some onion, diced thick-cut smoked bacon, some minced jalapeno or chipotle in adobo sauce, and chopped cilantro. I know a lot of folks don't care for cilantro, but it's a staple in our kitchen.

[Ken Combs]

Whatever your recipe, (and most of these are similar to mine), cook them in the smoker. I like cherry scraps, others like oak or mesquite. Any of them will improve your beans!
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I cook them at the same time the brisket, ribs or whatever is smoking.

[Ken Combs]

LOML and I favor savory over sweet. I start with Bush's "less sugar" "lower sodium" variety and add some onion, diced thick-cut smoked bacon, some minced jalapeno or chipotle in adobo sauce, and chopped cilantro. I know a lot of folks don't care for cilantro, but it's a staple in our kitchen.

I like it too. But, I read an article recently that explained why some people really dislike it. Some inherit a gene that makes it taste like soap!

Beans work really well using leftover brisket or rib meat chopped really fine. Too bad such leftovers are a rarity!