Boston Baked Beans

Wash the beans. Soak overnight. Add salt, stir and drain, reserving the liquid. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Cut off a third of the salt pork and place the piece on the bottom of a bean pot. Add the beans to the pot. blend the mustard, brown sugar, and molasses with the reserved bean liquid and pour over the beans. Cut several gashes in the remaining piece of salt pork and place on top of the beans. Cover and bake for about 6 hours, adding water as needed (do not let it dry out). Uncover for the final hour of cooking so the pork will become brown and crisp. Taste and correct seasoning. Variations: 2 cup Jacobs Cattle Beans Lots of Garlic 1-2 tbsp. powder 1 pint pure Maple syrup 1/4 pound salt pork or 2 cup Jacob's Cattle Beans, or any you like 1 cup Lloyd's barbecue sauce 1 tbsp. Colman's mustard 1 tbsp. Garlic powder 1/2 cup maple syrup or molasses 1/4 pound salt pork or maple flavored bacon Prepare same as Boston Baked Beans