If you're making baked beans, the dark color probably comes not from the beans themselves, but the sugar in the recipe. You can use molasses, brown sugar, or a combination.
When we eat hot dogs and beans, my mother will add molasses to the beans to make them taste better.
Molasses is used to make rum, in baked beans and as a sweetening ingredient in a vairety of baked goods.
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just dont add beans
Typically this would be kidney beans, but black beans would work as well.
Salt water or molasses softens beans well.
Gingersnap cookies, baked beans, crumb cake, spice cookies, pumpkin bread, barbecue sauce, molasses cookies, bran muffins, molasses taffy, banana bread, glazed pork, date bars, molasses cake, molasses candy, carrot cake, molasses doughnuts, it can also be used to sweeten coffee, or put on pancakes and waffles. I have even seen lollypops made with it.
You may not be using the right recepe, you need molasses and brown sugar , ketchup and mustard, salt and pepper for your sauce.
Ranch style beans are pinto beans that have been seasoned in a sauce. They are not available everywhere. You could substitute pinto beans for the Ranch style beans.
There are a wide variety of vegetarian dishes that can be considered as alternatives to meat dishes. Common dishes using a variety of beans and legumes to replace the protein that is present in the meat.
it depends on the recipe you're preparing...