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Barbecue Beans

ENDER, LIGHTLY SWEET, and deeply savory barbecue baked beans, a mainstay at potlucks today, are believed to have originated with Native American tribes whose crops included beans. According to Jasper White in (1989), “The [tribes] of New England slow-cooked beans in underground pits inside deer hides, with maple sugar and bear fat. This dish evolved into cooking beans with salt pork and molasses in a bean pot very slowly, often overnight.” Today’s baked beans, inspired by these early methods,

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