Butter Bean Bake
6 slices (or more) bacon 4 TBL. finely chopped onion
4 TBL. chopped green pepper 1 15oz. can tomato sauce
4 tsp. brown sugar 2 tsp. cider vinegar
1 TBL. prepared yellow mustard 2 15 oz. cans butter beans, drained
1TBL. worcestershire sauce 5 to 10 drops tabasco sauce
6 slices sharp cheddar cheese
Cook bacon until just crisp, drain, crumble and set aside. Cook onion and green pepper in bacon drippings until soft. Remove from drippings with slotted spoon and put in medium sized mixing bowl. Add the bacon to the bowl. Then in another bowl, add the brown sugar, mustard, worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce, vinegar, tabasco sauce and mix together. Add to the bacon bowl. Add the drained butter beans and fold all together. salt and pepper to taste.
Place in 1 or 1/12 qt. casserole that has been buttered, oiled or sprayed. Bake uncovered in 350 oven for 30 to 40 min. Add cheese slices on top return to oven for 15 to 20 min. more until cheese is melted and all is hot and bubbly. Serves about 4. This can be doubled and tripled and played with and it's always good.
yummmmmmm..
I love beans...
( But they don't like me very well... and no one likes me at all after I have eaten them...)
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Can you say Beano? Actually limas and butter beans have never bothered me as much as other kinds.
Actually they don't be either.. I was just being a smart ass..
but Beano doesn't work too well with me ..
I love Ham and beans but they kill me.
My mama swears by the trick of cooking a whole potato with your beans.. and then throwing away the potato.
She says it takes all the gas out of the beans.. but I have never tried it.. cause I always forget and by the time I think of it is when I have the first mouth full in my mouth.. :-\
ate a lot of ham and beans as a kid. That was the Monday Wash Day meal. Grandma used to add a little soda to the first water, simmer awhile, drain and put plain water in to finish cooking. She said the soda took the gas out. ::) ::) I don't remember that it did, tho. :-\
Quote from: flo on August 14, 2007, 11:28:49 AM
She said the soda took the gas out. ::) ::) I don't remember that it did, tho. :-\
Never did for me either! Tried the method myself- just because I love beans. Still didn't work. :-[ Beano helps some but there are still effects-just not as painful.
Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank
We are also bean and lentil fans. I've been cooking them for years and have never found anything that was very helpful in eliminating the flatulence part of the after-effects. We pretty much have adopted a plan whereby we have dinner and move to separate parts of the house. This townhouse is perfect. It has an upstairs and a downstairs of about equal sizes, both with egress to the back part of the house.
Then, in a few hours, we can resume closer proximity.
And to answer a question asked elsewhere, the same beans run through different bodies produce different effects.
;D
Some people find that eating live culture yogurt helps too. Everyone's digestive system is so different in terms of the natural bacteries that we all contain. Some kinds of beans make some folks ferment and bubble away like mash making whiskey. It's got to go somewhere!!!.
Now how did my nice recipe turn into a discussion on flatulance? ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: frawin on August 14, 2007, 01:41:55 PM
Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank
Frank, you count em out and I'll cook em :P
I was trying to figure out a way to say that, Flo. That was perfect.
;D
Quote from: flo on August 14, 2007, 03:01:39 PM
Quote from: frawin on August 14, 2007, 01:41:55 PM
Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank
Frank, you count em out and I'll cook em :P
And I'll eat 'em... :)
Quote from: flo on August 14, 2007, 03:01:39 PM
Quote from: frawin on August 14, 2007, 01:41:55 PM
Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank
Frank, you count em out and I'll cook em :P
Man, a person leaves and goes to work and now I get stuck cleaning up the pan. Guess that is all that's left to do.
I just logged on to the forum --- I am waiting for a U Tube video to load -- jeepers - start * Stop * Start * stop it takes forever ~~~~```
So here I am on the Bean Bake thread. I did cook a whole scrubbed potato with my ham and beens / or bacon and beans -- and then one day loooonnnnggg ago I was visiting with my dear friend Della Cox and she told me the REAL SECRET to cooking beans with no after effects was :::
Start the washed beans in cold water -- bring to a boil, immediately reduce the heat to a SLOW simmer with the lid set ajar on the pot - NEVER BOIL as the boiling process breaks the skin on the beans and THAT IS WHAT CAUSES THE GAS to form and also, the beans can become "mushy". Since I have been doing that we never have the problem of having to go where we can be alone with our ??? problems. Della told me she usually cooked her beans in the oven with the lid set off center, but with our RV the oven is my downfall (not very large) so I do mine on top of the stove, and NEVER NEVER with a tight lid and NEVER with a full boil, only a slow simmer. Try it, I think you will all be pleasantly surprised, and pleased with the result.
I was once told that if you soak them over night before cooking the gas would go away but it did not work then about 2 years ago I started doing beans in the crock pot and that seems to have eliminated the problem
Well I am the queen when it comes to "Bean Wind" so I will try anything.. LOL LOL LOL
Quote from: MarineMom on August 15, 2007, 04:44:31 AM
eliminated the problem
That is the problem. Elimination.