This is a recipe that I adapted from one out of the Troutville Amish Community Cookbook.  I made it even richer than it already was.

Ingredients:

1 lb small white beans

1/2 lb bacon.  Or more or less or none…its up to you.

1 medium onion, chopped medium to fine

2 tsp salt

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 Tbs dry mustard

1 Tbs real maple syrup

1 cup sour cream

pepper to taste

Proceedure:

Soak beans overnight in water.  Drain in the morning and cover with fresh water.  Add 1 tsp of salt and cook the beans until tender.  Drain.

Fry the bacon until crisp.  Drain and cool, then crumble.

Fry the onion in the butter**

Mix the brown sugar, maple syrup, mustard, the rest of the salt, the pepper, the bacon, the onion/butter mix, and the sour cream gently into the cooked beans.

Turn into a well-greased casserole and bake at 350 for 1 hour*** 

**If you want, you could replace some of the butter with bacon fat .  Just save some bacon fat from frying the bacon, add some butter to the pan and then fry the onion in the bacon fat/butter mix.  You need baconfat/butter to equal the 3/4 cup of butter called for in the recipe. 

***If you like your beans a little dryer, bake them a little longer.  But don't let them go too long 'cause they will get too dry.