Baked beans are a dish made from white common beans that are parboiled and then baked slowly in a seasoned sauce at a low temperature. The long, gentle cooking is meant to tenderize the beans while the sauce reduces around them. Many baked beans sold today are canned rather than truly baked, since the canning process cooks them through steam instead of an oven. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin RegionNortheastern North America (Indigenous origin); commercially popularized in the United States 1 Indigenous peoples including the Haudenosaunee, Narragansett and Penobscot baked beans with maple sugar and bear fat in bean holes; British colonists adapted the dish with molasses and pork. No exact origin year is documented for the indigenous or colonial dish, so origin-start-year is left unfilled rather than invented; the first mass commercial canning, by H. J. Heinz, began in 1895. Sources
1. Baked beans (Wikipedia)
History sectionQuote, History section
The first mass-produced commercial canning of baked beans in the United States began in 1895 by the Pennsylvania-based H. J. Heinz Company.
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