Baked Beans and Ham

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons brown sugar 
• 2 cups ham cooked chopped
• 2 cups catsup 
• 20 ounce bean soup mix dried
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper dried red crushed
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 16 ounce ham hocks smoked
• 2 tablespoons spicy brown mustard 
• 1 large onion diced sweet
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 
• 4 cups water 

Equipment

• oven
• dutch oven

Directions

1. Place beans in a Dutch oven; add water 2 inches above beans, and soak 8 hours.
2. Drain.
3. Bring beans, 4 cups water, and ham hocks to a boil in a Dutch oven; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour or until beans are tender.
4. Drain.
5. Remove beans; set beans aside.
6. Remove ham hocks, and let cool; chop meat, discarding skin and bones.
7. Saut onion and 2 cups ham in hot oil in Dutch oven 5 minutes or until onion is tender.
8. Add beans, reserved meat from ham hocks, ketchup, next 4 ingredients, and, if desired, bourbon to Dutch oven.
9. Bake, covered, at 350 for 1 hour.