Old Fashioned Baked Beans

Ingredients

• 8 slices crisply bacon crumbled cooked
• 0.5 cup brown sugar packed
• 2 cups navy beans dried
• 0.3 cup blackstrap molasses 
• 0.5 cup onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 3 cups water 

Equipment

• pot
• slow cooker

Directions

1. Bring 10 cups water and navy beans to a boil in a large pot; cook at a boil for 2 minutes. Stir bacon, onion, brown sugar, molasses, and salt into the water.
2. Carefully pour the mixture into a slow cooker.
3. Cook on High, stirring occasionally, for 4 hours.
4. Stir 3 cups water into the mixture. Continue cooking until beans are tender, about 2 hours 15 minutes more.