Pork and
beans
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Pork and beans is a culinary dish that uses beans and pork as its main ingredients. Numerous
variations exist, usually with a more specific name, from Fabada Asturiana[1]
to Olla podrida, to American canned pork and beans.[2]
American
canned pork and beans
Although the time and place of the
dish's invention is unclear, it was well established in the American diet by
the mid-19th century. The 1832 cookbook The American Frugal Housewife
lists only three ingredients for this dish: a quart of beans, a pound of salt pork,
and pepper.[3]
According to the 1975 Better Homes and Garden Heritage Cookbook, canned
pork and beans was the first convenience food.
Commercially canned pork and beans
were introduced in the United States during the 1880s. The dish is "an
American canned classic, [and] is recognized by American consumers generally as
an article of commerce that contains very little pork."[4]
This is due to the high fat content of the salt pork traditionally used for the
last 180 years in American pork and beans, which often renders into solution
when sufficiently heated.
The recipe for American commercially
canned pork and beans varies slightly from company to company, but generally
consists of rehydrated navy beans packed in tomato sauce (usually made from concentrate and
which may incorporate starch, sugar, salt and seasoning) with small chunks of
salted pork
or rendered pork fat.[5]
The ingredients are cooked and packed into hermetically sealed containers and
processed by heat to assure preservation.[6]
See
also
The original wiki link on the subject can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_and_beans
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