Baked beans also have a connection to Maine’s lumber industry. Oliver said lumber workers often used the traditional “bean hole,” which was a buried cast iron pot.

Typically, Maine baked beans are baked, covered, in a very low oven, 250 degrees, for a very long time, 8 to 10 hours. You remove the lid in the last hour or so of cooking, so the salt pork can ...

Maine at Work: Reporter spills the beans about factory where nothing is half-baked. ... But within minutes, I saw a 900-pound bean pot, full of freshly baked beans, flying toward me.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An iconic baked beans factory that stood for more than 150 years is going to cease production to make way for an institution affiliated with Northeastern University, ...

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