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Pork and Boston Baked Beans

Plunge a pint large, dried white beans in a gallon cold water to soak for twelve hours. Drain on a sieve and place in an earthen baked-bean pot. Pour one and a half quarts cold water into a basin, add two gills molasses, one tablespoon salt and a heavy teaspoon white pepper. Mix well with a whisk for a minute. Pour this over the beans. Place over the beans a one-pound piece salt pork, tightly cover the pot and lay in a roasting tin, containing a gallon cold water. Set in the oven and let steam for six hours, carefully watching not to let the water dry up in the pan; if it should dry up add some more hot water. Remove, clean the pot all around with a towel and send to the table without uncovering.