Warm Molasses Beans on Buttered Brown-Bread Toast

Warm molasses-sweetened navy beans with salt pork and mustard, spooned onto buttered brown-bread toast. This plate echoes Molasses for the Silent Sabbath, when a Puritan kitchen kept Saturday’s banked oven heat alive until Monday’s dawn.

Serves 4

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Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked navy beans
• 3 tbsp molasses
• 1 small onion
• 1 tsp dry mustard
• 2 oz salt pork
• 4 thick slices brown bread
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

1. 1Dice the onion and salt pork into small pieces.
2. 2Warm the cooked navy beans, onion, salt pork, molasses, dry mustard, and salt together in a saucepan over low heat for 15 minutes until the flavors meld and the mixture is creamy.
3. 3Toast the brown bread slices until golden.
4. 4Butter the warm toast generously and spoon the warm molasses beans over the top.
5. 5Serve immediately while the beans are steaming.