This section is from the book "The Arizona Cook Book", by Williams Public Library Association. Also available from Amazon: Arizona Cook Book.
Boil one quart of white beans four hours in high altitude, drain and put in bean jar; add salt, one tablespoon of cooking molasses, one teaspoon of ground chili, one small onion and lay slices of salt pork on top of beans, add water to cover them and bake five hours in slow oven. - Mrs. A. Willson, Williams. Ariz.
Parboil one pint beans ten minutes in water with a little soda. Drain, wash in cold water. Put in baking dish with one-half pound salt pork, one tablespoon New Orleans molasses, one-half teaspoon black pepper and two quarts cold water. Bake nine hours. - Mrs. Montgomery, Williams, Ariz.
Soak one quart small white beans in cold water over night. drain; add fresh water and simmer till soft but not broken; skim beans into pan with cover, add one-half pound salt pork cut in dice; mix one level teaspoon each of salt, brown sugar, mustard, and two tablespoons molasses; fill cup with boiling water, pour over beans; add enough water to nearly fill pot. As water boils out add more till nearly done, then let cook dry. - Mrs. J. R. Treat, Flagstaff, Ariz.
Soak one pint beans over night, add one-fourth pound salt pork, one-half can tomatoes, one tablespoon salt, two tablespoons sugar, and one level' teaspoon mustard; cover with water, adding hot water as it boils down. Bake. - Mrs. H. F. Adams, Williams, Ariz.
One cup of beans, one quart of cold water and a piece of soda as large as a bean. Put over the fire until the water commences to boil well, then drain off. Return beans to the fire with boiling water on them and add a piece of fat salt pork about four inches square. Let them boil gently until the beans are very nearly done enough to eat, keeping plenty of liquor on them to last while baking. Now season the beans with one even teaspoonful of ginger, one teaspoon of sugar and two teaspoons of tomato catsup, white pepper and salt. Score the rind of the pork and place the piece in the center of your baking dish, pouring the beans around it, but not over the top. Have the rind of the pork on top.. Bake until the rind is crisp, which will probably be about three-fourths of an hour. This is enough for four people. - Mrs. A. O. Wheeler, Manistee, Mich.
Boil one quart pink beans all day. Just before serving heat one tablespoon lard in pan till smoking hot, add beans with as little of the water as possible. Mash and add salt and green chili to taste and water beans were cooked in. - Mrs. Eva Wheeler, Flagstaff, Ariz.
Two cups cooked beans, one egg well beaten, two tablespoons peanut butter in equal amount of milk, one teaspoon each sage and chopped onion. Thicken with bread crumbs, and pepepr to taste, Bake till thick enough to slice when cold. - Mrs. Bennett, Warren, Ind.
 
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