Most begin with canned baked beans or pork and beans that you doctor up; just one recipe calls for canned great northern beans as its starting point.

One package was Jacob’s cattle beans, a favorite of many Mainers, so I opted to use those. They aren’t so easily sourced, but many other varieties can be used for baked beans, including great northern ...

Great northern beans are often the bean of choice when making baked beans, but you can also use navy, cannellini, cranberry, garbanzo, pinto or kidney beans.

Whether they’re navy beans, cannellini, limas or the “great Northern” variety—dried or straight out of a can—white beans are a permanent pantry ...

FOOD What We’re Cooking This Week: “Baked” Beans Convoluted history and personal prejudices aside, sweet and savory beans are delicious and fairly easy to make at home.

In “The Taste of Country Cooking,” Edna Lewis includes a simple recipe for some of the most flavorful beans you’ll ever taste.

Cast iron's great for cooking baked beansWe had so many requests for Nana's Baked Beans recipe, mentioned last Wednesday in Shanti Wilson's story on cast iron cookware, that we decided to include ...

Great Northern beans are smaller than cannellinis and are suitable for any number of uses: salads, soups, stews, ragouts, purees. Their texture is slightly grainy, with a nutty, dense flavor.