Need advice for baked beans - I miss the sweet and tangy beans from the South

[gandro]

I find the baked beans in jars and cans in the supermarket lacking flavor.
When I used to travel down south, I would find incredible baked beans that were sweet, tangy and smoky at BBQ joints. I would love to make my own.
Anyone have recipes?
Thanks

[nomadchowwoman]

Here's my recipe, easy and deliciously sweet and tangy:

Preheat oven to 350.

1/2 lb. bacon, cooked until crisp, bacon grease reserved, and bacon crumbled
2 med. lg. onions, preferably sweet, chopped
1 T. chopped garlic
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/3 c. apple cider vinegar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 can each:
Kidney beans, Cannellini or great northern beans, and black beans, all drained
1 can Bush's or B & W original baked beans, undrained

In bacon fat, saute onions until soft. Add garlic and saute a few minutes longer. Add mustard, vinegar, and brown sugar. Simmer about 15 minutes.
Put crumbled bacon and beans into a baking dish; add onion mixture and mix well.
Bake, covered, for 45-50 minutes.

[waitress]

The recipe from todao is right on track. You can always wing it, depending on how much time you have. I keep Bush's vegetarian baked beans on hand, you can simply doctor them up with yellow mustard and finely chopped raw onion, salt & pepper.

I mix Bush's beans with any can of any other bean too, white beans, kidney beans, black beans, black eye peas. Add brown sugar, mustard, salt & pepper with raw bacon on top and bake. People go through the roof when you mix beans, in a good way. Happy cookin'.

[todao]

My recipe includes ingredients like brown sugar, onions, vinegar, a mixture of red and white beans, dry mustard, tomato sauce, and chopped browned bacon (not sliced but from a full slab). But this recipe looks pretty good to me; and would probably be a lot easier to make than the concoction I assemble.

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