Baked beans
small white dried beans that have been baked, usually with salt pork, brown sugar or molasses, and seasonings.
Historical Examples
So we made him some tea and buttered42 toast, and opened and heated a can of baked beans.
More Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart
If you don’t stay I shall think it is because you don’t like baked beans.
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph C. Lincoln
baked beans, another Indian dish, were also good food for children.
Child Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle
Drop the can of baked beans into hot water and boil for 20 minutes.
Armour’s Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 Various
baked beans and brown bread were on the menu, as were also several kinds of pie and apple-sauce.
Bright Ideas for Entertaining Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott
“Salt pork and baked beans and things like that,” and he grinned.
The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch Edward Stratemeyer
“I’d like to know what they think,” said Sylvia, dishing up the baked beans.
The Shoulders of Atlas Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
baked beans come by nature, seems to me, but pies are a gift of grace.
The Sun Maid Evelyn Raymond
The breakfast itself, baked beans and fishballs, did not appeal to him, and he ate little.
Thankful’s Inheritance Joseph C. Lincoln
She hesitated over a pan half full of baked beans, and finally added them to the store.
The Girl from Montana Grace Livingston Hill
plural noun
haricot beans, baked and tinned in tomato sauce
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