I’m not really asking for recipes, I am just asking to see if most people use the same things, or if the ingredients are wildly varied. (The Dope is my access to people that are wildly varied!! )
I make my baked beans on the stove top. I start with a can of baked beans, preflavored with any (or any combination of) the following: bacon, onion, brown sugar, or “maple flavoring.” I add a can of pork and beans, then I add other things to customize them. One batch is never the same as the next. I always add onion.
The other ingredients may be:
bacon
mustard
ketchup (or catsup - depending on where you’re from )
brown sugar
honey
maple syrup
liquid “smoke seasoning” (Hickory or mesquite)
hickory or mesquite powdered spice.
Upon occasion I will add barbeque sauce - it happens most often when we are using that sauce on the meat we are having for dinner. (I see it on the counter, and think, “Yeah, okay” :o )
Always from scratch - never canned as a starter unless I’m just cooking dinner for myself.
Dried Great Northern or Navy beans
Pork
Onions
Molasses
Bourbon
Dry mustard
Brown sugar
After that it gets weird, depending on my mood. Hot sauce, habs, umami of some sort, diced apples, whatever. But never any tomato product or fake smoke.
Of course, if I’m just making glop for my own dinner, a can of baked beans could get just about anything added to it.
a small amount of ground hamburger, browned and drained
chopped onion and bell pepper simmered in beans till soft
a dash of barbeque sauce, worsteshire sauce an sometimes a small amount of mustard
a bit of brown sugar to taste
Brown sugar, ketchup, mustard, onions. Since we don’t use pork products, we use vegetarian beans. If we want meat in 'em, we cut kosher hot dogs into coins and toss them in.
American baked beans can be just beans and tomato sauce, and if you just buy the cheap cans, that’s what you’re going to get. They can be so much more, though, too.
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