I got curious and so hunted around on the internet and found way more information about baked beans on toast than I ever imagined. I found it hilarious that there are actually videos showing how to make it, seriously.
Wikipedia tells me that the dish is actually good for lowering our cholesterol. The BBC Sport Academy also says they are healthy for us.
All that is nice to know; but where did the concept of baked beans on toast come from? Wikipedia tells me that the beans used are native to North America and that the French made a dish similar to baked beans, they have the idea that these recipes coalesced in the USA to turn into the baked beans we are familiar with.
The canned baked beans were apparently our first "fast food" and were made popular by USA companies exporting them to the UK.
The Heinz company tells me the following on their website:
">In 1927, a Heinz executive was thinking about ways to sell more baked beans and created a national dish— Beans on Toast, introducing the idea of having beans for breakfast as well as dinner. It's a tradition that has stood the test of time in the U.K."
Anyway for whatever reason, I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada eating baked beans on toast and continue to do so. I am thinking that perhaps because 3 of my 4 grandparents immigrated to Canada as young people, (the 4th grandparent was actually born in Canada after his parents had immigrated), from England that they continued to eat what they were used to. That idea falls apart though as they immigrated long before baked beans in a tin were ever made. Who knows?
Some of the other delicacies? I ate as a child were poached eggs on toast, sardines on toast, melted cheddar cheese on toast, blue cheese on toast, chicken haddie in a bechamel sauce on toast, fresh cucumber and cress sandwiches, shepherds pie and potato pancakes. Mom also made Christmas pudding with caramel sauce and fruit cake, as well as mince pies and tarts. Quite likely there are a lot more that I am not remembering at the moment.
Did any of you eat these things growing up and do you still?
The majority of what we ate was grown and raised right on our family farm. Lots of fresh veggies from the garden in the summer also canned and in later years frozen, for the winter meals. Chicken, beef, pork, eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, butter, berries tame and native, etc.. We ate very, very well, along with being very tasty, it was heavy, stick to your ribs type of food. How can you not love a sweet cob of corn cooked straight from the garden and dripping butter down your chin?
On the other hand we never had grits, Okra, eggplant, catfish and a whole lot of other things that are very common for other people.
Ok time to go, getting hungry!!
Some of the other delicacies? I ate as a child were poached eggs on toast, sardines on toast, melted cheddar cheese on toast, blue cheese on toast, chicken haddie in a bechamel sauce on toast, fresh cucumber and cress sandwiches, shepherds pie and potato pancakes. Mom also made Christmas pudding with caramel sauce and fruit cake, as well as mince pies and tarts. Quite likely there are a lot more that I am not remembering at the moment.
Did any of you eat these things growing up and do you still?
The majority of what we ate was grown and raised right on our family farm. Lots of fresh veggies from the garden in the summer also canned and in later years frozen, for the winter meals. Chicken, beef, pork, eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, butter, berries tame and native, etc.. We ate very, very well, along with being very tasty, it was heavy, stick to your ribs type of food. How can you not love a sweet cob of corn cooked straight from the garden and dripping butter down your chin?
On the other hand we never had grits, Okra, eggplant, catfish and a whole lot of other things that are very common for other people.
Ok time to go, getting hungry!!
