Baked Beans

2 pounds beans
1 pound salt pork
3/4 cups sugar

Soak beans 6 hours, or over night; cook in plenty of water. When to the boiling point add 1/4 teaspoonful soda and cook until shell curls when blown upon. Have pork cooking in another kettle while beans are parboiling; drain beans and add pork and water in which it has been cooked and boil until done, or preferably in fireless cooker over night. Put in pan, pork slized over top, salt and pepper to taste; sprinkle sugar over top and bake slowly 3 or 4 hours.