Atlantic Canadian Baked Beans — From Indigenous Roots to the Atlantic Hearth

Описание: Discover the rich history behind one of Atlantic Canada’s most beloved comfort foods — baked beans. Long before they simmered in cast-iron pots, Indigenous peoples of the Northeast were slow-baking beans with corn and sweetening them with maple syrup. Over time, settlers adopted and adapted the recipe, introducing molasses, salted pork, and long oven bakes that became a Maritime staple.

In this episode of From the Atlantic Hearth, I’m sharing my own family’s take — “Mom’s Traditional Baked Beans” — a recipe that connects generations and carries the warmth of home in every spoonful.

🪶 Featuring: The evolution of baked beans from Indigenous roots to Atlantic kitchens
🕯️ Recipe Era: 18th century origins to modern Maritime tradition

🥣 Ingredients:
1/2 bag (@ 2 cups) dried navy beans/soldier beans/brown eyed beans
1/2 small onion
2 Tbs molasses
1 c brown sugar
1/8 tsp dry mustard
2 small cubes salt pork (or bacon)
pinch of Salt and a dash of pepper

Slow-baked, sweet, and smoky — this is more than comfort food; it’s edible history.
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Time line:
00:10 - History of baked beans
02:47 - Making the Beans
07:31 - Out of the Oven

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Attributions:
Wabanaki Confederacy at its maximum extent: Grug-Jack, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons. No changes were made.

Maliseet Indian Wooden Hut Interior, A watercolour by Robert Petley, c. 1850: This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired. PD-1996 – public domain in its source country on January 1, 1996 and in the United States.

Mi’kmaq camp: Attributed to A.R. Cogswell. Location unknown. Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Indians - Micmac Camp / negative 2485, ca. 1890

Party of Lumbermen, Seven Miles below Riley Brook, Victoria County, New Brunswick. circa 1862 William Francis Ganong Collection, author: George Thomas Taylor

Men collecting maple sap: circa 1925 Archives of Ontario, Accession number I0004354 "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario."

"Yorktown: Soldiers' Rations: Hard Biscuits, Salt, Pork and Beans" by bill barber is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

"As Slow As Molasses" by technicool is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....

"Onions" by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....