Sweet and Sour Beans

Ingredients

• 1 pound bacon 
• 30 ounce baked beans canned
• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• 15 ounce shell beans canned
• 15 ounce kidney beans drained canned
• 15 ounce lima beans *soaked overnight drained canned
• 0.5 teaspoon mustard dry hot
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder 
• 3  onions chopped
• 0.5 cup citrus champagne vinegar 

Equipment

• frying pan
• pot
• slow cooker

Directions

1. Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown.
2. Drain, crumble and set aside. Reserve 2 tablespoons bacon fat.
3. Add onions to fat in pan, and saute until soft. Stir in garlic powder, dry mustard, wine vinegar, and brown sugar. Simmer for 20 minutes.
4. In a large pot or slow cooker combine bacon and onion mixture with the kidney beans, lima beans, butter beans, and baked beans.
5. Mix together, and simmer for 70 minutes.