Boston baked beans

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Boston baked beans sg or pl

  1. (cooking) A variety of baked beans, sweetened with molasses, and flavored with salt pork or bacon.
    Hypernym: baked beans
    • 2011 February 22, Oliver Thring, “Consider baked beans”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2014:
      Boston baked beans is a lovely winter supper: Andy Appleton, head chef at Fifteen in Cornwall, sent me a nice recipe for creamy borlotti beans which I've been whacking on toast for breakfast.

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