Rehydrated Baked Beans

Yes you read that right, it’s not re-fried or dehydrated baked beans, it’s rehydrated baked beans. What is that you ask? Well when you make delicious baked beans but they dried out over night, you need to come up with a plan to make them look good and taste great!

A few weeks ago I cooked a pork roast in my crock-pot but I started it the night before. While that was cooking I decided to bake the beans for the following day also. I use my grandmother’s recipe with great northern beans, brown sugar, molasses and topped with bacon. Later in the evening I turned both off, letting the crock-pot cool off before storing in the refrigerator for the night. I checked the beans in the oven and they needed a bit more cooking time so I left them in to continue baking with the oven off. When the beans cooled I put them in the refrigerator also. If you want a delicious home made baked been recipe, this is how my grandmother made them when I was a young girl.
http://themarthareview.com/my-grandmothers-baked-beans/

The next morning I continued cooking the roast for a few more hours and since the beans were done I didn’t check them. After the roast was done cooking, I left it cool for about 20 minutes and hubby pulled it apart with our meat claws. It smelled so good and couldn’t wait for dinner.

When I took the baked beans out of the refrigerator I gasped! They looked so dry and we were leaving for Alexandra’s and Stevie’s house in a few hours with the dinner. What do to, what to do! I could scratch the beans and just have the pulled pork and scalloped potatoes, I could doctor up canned beans with brown sugar like I do when I’m in a hurry or I could come up with a plan to rehydrate the dry baked beans.

It didn’t take long to figure out how I was going to rehydrate baked beans. I added about 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of water together and mixed until the sugar dissolved. Next I poured the mixture over the beans and put them back in the oven at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes. I was amazed at how delicious they looked and tasted! The baked beans were back to the way they should have been, juicy! So if your beans dry out unexpectedly, they are not destined to be thrown away and start over, just rehydrate the beans!

Of course you knew I would tell you the cost of this dinner! The boneless pork roast was regular $4.49 per pound but on sale for $1.99! The price I paid for the seven pound roast was just over $14.00, the beans and fixins’ cost a few dollars and the box of scalloped potatoes were $1.00. So high end total was under $20.00 to feed four hungry people plus we had a leftovers for lunch the next day.