Butter Bean Bake

[Diane Amberg]

                       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.
           

[Teresa]

yummmmmmm..
I love beans...

( But they don't like me very well... and no one likes me at all after I have eaten them...)

[Diane Amberg]

 Can you say Beano?  Actually limas and butter beans have never bothered me as much as other kinds.

[Teresa]

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.. 

[flo]

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. 

[Ole Granny]

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.

[frawin]

Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank

[kdfrawg]

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.

[Diane Amberg]

 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? 

[flo]

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