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Calico Beans

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Course: Side Dishes
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 pound bacon
  • 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons dry mustard
  • 3 tablespoons Vinegar
  • 1 15-ounce can of pork and beans, DO NOT DRAIN
  • 1 15-ounce can of white bean or white kidney beans, DO NOT DRAIN
  • 1 15-ounce can of red kidney beans DO NOT DRAIN
  • 1 15-ounce can of Butter Beans, DO NOT DRAIN
  • 1/2 cup chopped Onions
  • 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder

Method
 

  1. Set oven at 325 degrees
    fry out the bacon. Place on paper towel to absorb grease. Reserve the bacon grease and drippings in the pan. set aside.
    using a separate fry pan, fry out the ground beef. drain and discard the grease from the ground beef. Then add the bacon grease and dripping to the ground beef. Add the onions. Saute until onions are tender.
    Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients, including the fluid in the cans EXCEPT for the bacon. Place the ground beef mix in a 9X13 oven safe pan.
    bake for an hour and a half or until the top is a bit carmelized. Remove from oven. Crumble bacon and add to the top. (or mix it through) either is fine.

Notes

I use less Brown Sugar than this recipe calls for. (1/2 cup)
also I pretty much drain the liquid from the red kidney beans.