Baked beans is a recipe consisting of beans baked (or stewed) in a sauce. Traditional cuisines of many regions claim such recipes as typical specialities, for example: Boston baked beans Jersey bean crock Guernsey bean jar Cassoulet Feijoada Baked beans (fèves au lard) in Quebec - see Cuisine of Quebec British cuisine claims beans on toast as a teatime favourite, and baked beans may form part of a Full English breakfast Bake ...

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The recipe for baked beans may be based on a Native American dish in which beans were cooked with bear fat and maple syrup in an earthenware pot. European settlers may have adapted this recipe, using pork fat and molasses. According to alternative traditions, sailors brought cassoulet from the south of France, or the regional bean stew recipes from northern France and the Channel Islands. Most probably, a number of regional bean recipes coalesced and cross-fertilised in North America and ultimately gave rise to the baked ...

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