Baked Beans: Baked with Love

If you’re from Maine you probably remember having baked beans every Saturday night. Maybe you still keep this tradition alive and make beans from scratch. However you eat them, baked beans are a distinctive Maine dish.

Here at Dysart’s, we take the art of baking beans seriously. Our yellow-eyed beans travel from East Corinth to Bangor, Maine. Cooking them slowly with care, we bake them with molasses, salt pork, and love. It’s then that they become irresistible.

At our restaurant, baked beans are always on the menu (beans with breakfast is another Maine thing!) They’re great paired with baked ham or red hot dogs. Or just enjoy them by themselves, they won’t get lonely. All our beans come with coleslaw & homemade bread.

Plus, at our Broadway Travel Stop, enjoy a tasty deal: Get one quart of beans, one loaf of bread, & one pint of coleslaw for $9.99

Dysart’s Baked Beans - You can’t resist these beans.

Want to make Maine baked beans at home? Here's our recipe:

Maine Baked Beans

1 lb. yellow-eye beans, soaked overnight
1 large onion
1/4 lb. salt pork
1 tbsp. salt
1/2 tsp. white pepper
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp. dry mustard
1/2 cup molasses

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. In a large covered pot add soaked beans and remaining ingredients with enough water to cover beans. Bake for about 8 hours. Check beans periodically to make sure they do not need water. If water is needed, add enough boiling water to cover the beans again. 

Experienced cooks say the beans use more water when it is going to rain.