Food
Slow Cooker Maple Baked Beans
Sweetened with maple syrup and molasses, these homemade maple baked beans are both delicious and easy to make.
By Yankee Magazine|Jan 13 2018|
Coffee By Design | Portland, Maine
Photo Credit : Katherine Keenan
dumb question but what do you mean by barely covered? fill with boiling water a little above the beans?
Yes, Kathy, just so the beans are covered by the water; not more than a 1/4 inch over. You can always add more water if necessary, but it probably won’t be when using a show cooker. I would use other liquid rather than water for more flavor, like diluted chicken or vegetable stock. Good luck!
can you use other types of beans instead such as navy beans?
My 100 year old Grandmother, from Calais and Wiscassett, insisted on Navy, but admitted most any large bean “would do”, just have to monitor for “doneness”.
Please forgive me, I am a Texan living in the Pacific Northwest with a daughter that has lived in the Boston area for years and loves it, hence my interest in all things from New England. I know all about beans, grew up eating lots of pinto or red beans with cornbread but I have never heard of “yellow eye beans”! Black-eyed peas, yes, but no yellow eye beans. What are they and where can they be found? I’ve made baked beans using navy beans and large lima beans but I would like to try these if I can find them. Thanks for any help you can provide!
I’m betting you won’t find yellow eye beans in your part of the US, but don’t despair. You can get them online (RanchoGordo.com or Amazon sell them) or you may find them @ Whole Foods, or a well-stocked natural food store. They are a very tasty bean, and worth seeking out if you’ve never tried them. Good luck!
Yellow Eye Beans are a Maine favorite,large in size with a spot that looks like an eye.I think that if you Google yellow eye beans you probably would get a description and location to buy.
Ebay is an excellent source
We are long time Yankees and love our bake beans, sweet or not sweet. But we swear by yellow eye beans from the state of Maine. We are Vermonters.
Loved the baked lime beans; Mom made them occasionally when I was a boy. Great tasting, but they can be very gaseous.
You can find yellow eyed beans from Rancho Gordo (Rancho Gordo.com or FB) a California company growing and buying organic heirloom beans. I’ve tried about half of what they grow and each kind of bean is superior to everything I’ve ever tasted. I say that unreservedly. Check them out. The yellow eyed is a big, meaty white bean, and very versatile with any kind of preparation. I hear from my sister that the popcorn is unbelievable!
I love to use little white beans, they’re my favorite. I have had baked Lima beans that was interesting.
I was born in downtown Boston, a small hospital, that could see the ocean. We only use Navy Beans, family mandate. Don’t tell any of them, I have used many different beans, they all taste the same. I don’t soak over night, either. Makes them soggy, I like firm beans when done. I cook in an old fashioned oven beanery pot. Maple baked beans are my absolute favorite.
My mother always insisted Soldier Beans were better than Yellow Eye, when we would visit in Maine we stocked up, my Dad preferred Navy Beans. There is a Soldier on the side in place of the Yellow Eye.
Can I substitute something for the salt pork? I don’t eat meat.
Hi, I’m from California but grew up in Michigan. My mom made baked beans often, a summer picnic favorite. After soaking overnight, we always drained the beans, added fresh water to par boil. For this recipe should I not drain the soaking water?
And we too always used Navy beans. Now I’ll try yellow eye for sure.
To use the soaking water or not.
The purpose from a digestive perspective, not using the bean soaking water for cooking, helps decrease the unwanted gasseous side effects of beans.
I use only Maine Soldier Beans. I soak the beans over night (save extra liquid to use when baking ) and use a pressure cooker and cook 10 min. using the 10 pound setting. I then finish the beans in the oven in a bean pot or use a crock pot . Making sure to keep the beans covered in liquid. Best beans ever. Add homemade rolls and franks and you have the Saturday night meal I grew up eating, so good.
Hint from one of the older women at a church dinner: add 2 T of apple cider vinegar to the beans too. She made the best baked beans.
AYUH! Yellow Eye beans are good. State of Maine Jacob’s Cattle Beans are even better if that is possible. Saturday night special.
I agree with the Navy bean crew. My great grandmother always used them in her New England baked beans.
I will try this recipe, been looking for a slow cooker recipe for Yellow Eye beans. I buy the dried beans at Calef’s General Store in Barrington, NH. Grew up in a family that had an S.S. Pierce retail grocery in Hudson Valley of New York. Only baked beans we had at home were tins of Pierce baked yellow eye beans.
You appear to like your beans in New England, in my opinion Branston is the best brand of beans because the sauce in the beans is an ideal consistency