Cold front! Must be time for beans.

[message_board_expert]

Not to diminish the OP's post, but since it arose here:

Real Southern Cornbread Recipe | Allrecipes

 

[Golddollar]

Well?! Don't leave us hanging! What's the recipe?

OK, here we go:

GOLDDOLLAR'S MOM'S BEANS

Ingredients:

1 pound navy beans

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup molasses

2 teaspoons brown mustard

1 medium onion, sliced

1 16oz (more or less) can tomato sauce

3 oz. pre-cooked bacon or 1/2 pound raw bacon, chopped

1/4 cup ketchup

Cover beans in cold water and soak overnight. Drain beans, then re-cover with cold water and simmer until skins burst, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Pour into heavy casserole or bean pot without draining. NOTE: Volume of beans will have expanded greatly.

Combine remaining ingredients, add to beans and stir through. Add enough cold water to have liquid to top of container or cover about 1/2 inch over the beans, whichever is less.

Set oven at 275 Degrees F. Cover baking vessel and bake for 6-8 hours. Check for consistency at 5 1/2 hours and every 1/2 hour afterwards. Remove cover for last 1/2 hour. Serves 8-12.

 

[charlie sherrill]

My wife made cornbread and beans last week and I bought a BIG bottle of Crown Royal due to the cold weather.

You got to have some anti-freeze.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Sounds good.

We have quite a bit of ham left over from Thanksgiving. We are going to throw it in the crock pot with pinto beans. I'll have mine with skillet cornbread, green onions, hot sauce and beer.

The young'uns will get chicken nuggets and tater tots. They won't touch a pinto bean. Defective genes.

I didn't know they had pinto beans in Ohio-didn't know they grew that far north. Don't let them Texas boys catch you sneaking them into some chili Remember eatin' beans tastes good AND is good for ya!!

 

[wood714]

My dad and Ruthie's dad loved that, too. If cornbread wasn't handy they would substitute biscuits.

I tried to like it. I really did.

I couldn't get past butter milk to even think about trying it.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We have them smuggled across the river by nefarious bean traffickers. Trouble is that by the time they get here they have been stepped on so many times by middle men that they lack the "prize at the bottom of the cereal box" after burner capability of the uncut stuff.

Let's face facts. The chili around these parts is Greek meat sauce that beans will float on. It's an acquired taste that requires no chewing.

You know that my home town here has missed the culinary boat when the dish it is most famous for, Goetta, is the illegitimate cousin of Scrapple.

And, the biggest brewer here is that bean bakin' Samuel Adams guy.

Plus we are home to the American Cornhole Organization.

To sum up:

 

[wood714]

I didn't know they had pinto beans in Ohio-didn't know they grew that far north. Don't let them Texas boys catch you sneaking them into some chili Remember eatin' beans tastes good AND is good for ya!!

I always thought there was a difference between regular Ohio and Cincinnati Ohio. Just about all the people I knew the 42 years I lived in Cincinnati was from Kentucky, or at least their folks were.

I eat way more of these than I'd ever admit. I bet there would be a way to cook them and make them a lot better than eating them cold out of the can with a pack of crackers like I do.

 

[tops]

Not to diminish the OP's post, but since it arose here:

Real Southern Cornbread Recipe | Allrecipes

Cornbread ain't got no flour in it. Biscuits have flour. You ain't from around here are you. Larry

 

[tops]

I'm not a patrolman but I think it makes a great snack anytime. Larry

 

[tops]

A pound of pintos and a pound of country ham. Side dish of chow chow, onions or slaw and cornbread. For the people that don't know what country ham is it's salt cured. Years ago I was in Col. or Wyo. (can't remember) and country ham was on the menu. I asked the waitress if it was real country ham. She asked the cook and he said yes. It was some kind of picnic or canned ham. Pap called that stuff city ham. When I left I told the waitress that if anybody that talked like me ever asked if that was real country ham to tell them no. Larry

 

[VaTom]

Country Ham, red eye gravy, fried eggs/over easy, grits, and biscuits. Breakfast fit for a King.

The red eye gravy is easy-lot of folks not from the south don't know what it is. After frying up the ham, pour some black coffee into the pan of drippings and heat up. I think a lot of the southern foods we grew up with and the recipes passed down were a result of hard times over the years. My wife has a recipe for Buttermilk Pie - doesn't sound too good but just like cheesecake!

 

[Chubbo]

foooeeeee

In this thread, I've read about the likings of buttermilk, by many of you folks. I sincerely believe that, everyone deserves an opinion. I feel compelled to give my unsolicited opinion, about buttermilk, a natural disposable, byproduct, produced while making cottage cheese. Buttermilk falls into the category of any spoiled food, such as any spoiled milk, rancid butter, or rotten eggs. In the sake of fairness, and respect of others' tastes, I've tried several times to drink buttermilk, but never was able to get it swallowed.

Chubbo

 

[cowboy4evr]

I cook pinto beans in my granite ware bean pot , on the stove top . I add some salt , pepper , plenty of chili powder and cut up a jalapeno to toss in . I don't presoak my beans . Just sort, wash , start cooking . A bowl of my beans and some good fresh corn tortilla's to sop up the bean juice is my meal . I get my beans fresh from the bean plant , it makes a difference. Regards Paul