Where do baked beans come from?
Neanderthals when they discovered that soaking in water (an accident by leaving a pot of dry beans ( that they were grinding into flour) out in the rain and forgot then putting in the fire to dry) left the beans tender and then added some spices) Looking at the American scene the pioneers brought recipes from their home lands The dutch ovens over camp fires baked the beans rather than just cooked as soup or stew like Good cooks continued to enhance the recipes Industrialization gave us the canned Baked Beans
