Boston Baked Beans

Add chopped hot dogs to the beans for the traditional frank and beans favorite.

2 pounds dried small white beans

12 cups water

2 teaspoons salt

1 cup molasses

2 tablespoons dry mustard

½cup dark brown sugar

½cup chopped onions

¼cup salt pork or thick sliced bacon, chopped into small pieces Olive oil

1.Soak beans in water in uncovered VersaWare™ stoneware overnight (or for a minimum of 8 hours). After soaking, place stoneware in slow cooker heating base, cover, and cook on Low for 3 hours. Drain liquid reserving 1 cup and set aside. Remove beans and set aside

2.Coat bottom of stoneware with olive oil and add salt pork or bacon; sauté on stovetop set to medium heat for 5-10 minutes to render fat.

3.Add 1 cup liquid from beans (saved from soaking) and remaining ingredients including reserved beans into the stoneware. Mix together on stovetop set to medium heat for 10 minutes until blended.

4.Remove from stovetop and place stoneware in slow cooker heating base. Cover and cook on Low for 10-12 hours or on High for 6-8 hours.

Serves 8

 

Note: when using an electric stovetop, the heat diffuser

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MUST ALWAYS be used with the VersaWare™ stoneware.

Corned Beef and Cabbage

12 new potatoes, quartered

4carrots, sliced

4pounds corned beef brisket

2 onions, sliced

3 bay leaves

8 black peppercorns

Water to cover

1 head cabbage, wedged

1.Place potatoes and carrots in bottom of VersaWare™ stoneware. Add brisket, onion, bay leaves and peppercorns.

2.Add enough water to cover. Place stoneware in slow cooker heating base, cover, and cook on Low for 8-10 hours or on High for 4-5 hours. Add cabbage halfway through cooking.

Serves 6-8

Mulled Cider

1 gallon apple cider

1/3 cup brown sugar

15 whole cloves

10 whole allspice berries

5 whole cinnamon sticks

1.Combine all ingredients in the VersaWare™ stoneware.

2.Place stoneware in slow cooker heating base, cover, and cook on High for 30 minutes and then turn to Low for up to 5 hours. The longer the spices are left in, the stronger the “mulling”.

Serves 12-16

Note: when using an electric stovetop, the heat diffuser

 

MUST ALWAYS be used with the VersaWare™ stoneware.

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