My Own Crock Pot New England Baked Beans Recipe

Directions:

1. Soak beans over night or do a quick soak method. If soaking, drain soaking water, replace with new and boil the beans 30 minutes. I know what crock pots say about beans and sorry companies, this works!
2. Place onions and salt pork in bottom of pot.
3. Pour in beans drained of water.
4. Mix the next 7 ingredients in a saucepan and bring just to the boil stirring occasionally. Pour over beans in pot.
5. Add water to cover beans and cook on low 10-12 hours (or more) topping with water if necessary.
6. Stir every 2 hours and cook with lid off for final 2 hours to thicken. I usually find that I need to stop adding water at this point and stir occasionally as beans will appear dried out on top; this is how they should look. Just stir.
7. These should be saucy rather than liquidy or dry. a thick sauce. Unfortunately this is not a crock pot recipe which can be left unattended for more than 2-3 hours.
8. Eating the onions is one of the best parts! I used to only use 1 until my mother began screaming give me an onion!
9. These freeze very well. Freeze in plastic containers or bags and thaw at room temperature. Re-heat adding a bit of water if necessary as they *can* thicken upon freezing.