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HAMBURGER BEAN CASSEROLE Rating:

Similar to Boy Scout Stew
Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2  lbs. Ground Beef  (cooked)
  • 4 Slices of Bacon  (cooked)
  • 1 Can Diced Tomatoes
  • 3 Stalks of Celery - diced (cooked until soft)
  • 1 can Bush's Baked Beans
  • Potato Chips (crushed)
Directions:
 

Brown beef in frying pan,  season with salt & pepper, garlic salt - to taste.  Fry bacon and break into small pieces and add to cooked ground beef.  Saute` diced celery until soft and add to ground beef.  Add can of diced tomatoes and can of baked beans to ground beef - mix gently.  Put in casserole baking dish and crush potato chips on top and bake at 350 degrees for half hour to 45 minutes.

 

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Judy Boncher
Judy from Wisconsin.  Judy is truly a remarkable cook.  I know a lot of people say that, but she is the genuine article.
A tid-bit of Baked Beans history.
The beans used in the dish are all native to North America and the USA and were introduced to Italy in 1528 and France by 1547. Beans, squash and maize were grown together by Native Americans using the Three Sisters method of farming. According to alternative traditions, sailors brought cassoulet from the south of France, or the regional bean stew recipes from northern France and the Channel Islands.  Most probably, a number of regional bean recipes coalesced and cross-fertilised in North America and ultimately gave rise to the baked bean culinary tradition familiar today.  While many recipes today are stewed, traditionally beans were baked in a ceramic or cast-iron bean pot. Bean hole cooking as practiced in Maine's logging camps used stone-lined fire pits where the bean pots would be buried to cook overnight or longer.
 
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