D,btag Beans Aka Atomite Beans

Total Time: 7 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups dry pinto beans
• 5 cups water
• 2 -4 smoked ham hocks (depending on meatiness, or the pre joint end of a ham, bone & skin in, don't spare the meat)
• 1 large yellow onion, very coarsely chopped
• 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
• 1/3 cup blackstrap molasses
• 1/3 cup brown sugar (maybe a bit more if you like it sweet)
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1/8 cup catsup (a good squirt)
• 1 tablespoon yellow mustard (a smaller squirt)
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne
• 1 (10 ounce) can black beans (i know that's cheating)
• 1 medium red onion, med fine chop

Recipe

• 1 this involves a pressure cooker.
• 2 if you don't have one i'm guessing 2 1/4 hrs first cooking time, covered, rather than 45 min (x3 rule). put the beans and water in the pressure cooker 5 minutes at 15 lbs to soak, fast cool and drain (or use your favorite soaking method).
• 3 cut the biggest chunks of fat off the hock and discard.
• 4 score through the skin and put the hock, yellow onion, very coarsely chopped, the beans (piled around the hock), liquid smoke, and enough of the soaking liquid to barely cover.
• 5 no salt or other seasonings.
• 6 cook at pressure for 45 minutes.
• 7 fast cool and remove the ham bones and skin, the meat will fall off the bones and the beans will be tender skinned.
• 8 carefully mix in all the other ingredients.
• 9 set your oven at 240°f and put in the uncovered bean pot,.
• 10 after four hours or so add the red onion and can of black beans (i've been known to add a can of garbanzos also). stir once.
• 11 give it another couple hours until it reaches the consistency you want, then enjoy.
• 12 these actually freeze well, when there is any left to.