I have provided Kathy's recipe as it was given to me. I cook up a variety of dried, canned, and frozen beans that I have on hand instead of using prepared beans from the grocery store. (Substitute approximately four pounds of pre-cooked beans for the canned beans in the recipe.) I also use my homemade ketchup instead of the store-bought variety and use molasses instead of sugar. You can experiment with different types of meat as well. I often use only hamburger, or only ground sausage because it is what I have on hand. I usually cook this recipe in the crockpot instead of the oven.
Old Fashioned Settler Beans
1/2 pound of bacon chopped
1 medium onion chopped
1/2 pound of hamburger
1/4 pound of smoked sausage sliced and halved
(2) one pound cans of pork-n-beans
(1) one pound can of kidney beans drained
(1) one pound can of butter beans drained
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1/3 cup of white sugar
1/4 cup of ketchup
1 tsp of liquid smoke
1/2 tsp each of salt and pepper
1 Tablespoon of dry mustard
Brown bacon, onion, hamburger, and sausage together. Drain grease. Thoroughly mix sugars, catsup, liquid smoke, dry mustard, salt, and pepper. Add to meat mixture. Combine with beans in a large casserole dish and bake covered at 350 for one hour.
Enjoy!