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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baked beans
noun
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▪ But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans, burgers and ice-cream.
▪ Consider a plateful of baked beans on toast.
▪ I said to him once, sitting in a chair as he fed me my midday meal of baked beans and crackers.
▪ In my local supermarket you can buy tins of baked beans without tomato sauce.
▪ Potato salad and baked beans are standard fare at most delis.
▪ They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
▪ We had a wonderful, lazy time and didn't see a tin of baked beans for the whole fortnight.
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baked beans

n. A food consisting of beans baked or stewed in a usually tomato-based sauce.

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Baked beans

Baked beans is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce. Most commercially canned baked beans are made from haricot beans, also known as navy beans – a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris in a sauce. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, a tomato and sugar sauce is most commonly used, and they are commonly eaten on toast or as part of a full English breakfast.

American Boston baked beans use a sauce prepared with molasses and salt pork, the popularity of which has led to the city being nicknamed "Beantown". Beans in a tomato and brown sugar, sugar or corn syrup sauce are a widely available type throughout the U.S. Canada's Quebec-style beans often use maple syrup. This style is also popular in states bordering Canada's Eastern provinces.

Canned baked beans are used as a convenience food. They may be eaten hot or cold straight from the can as they are fully cooked.

Usage examples of "baked beans".

He added a mound of baked beans and topped it with a quivering slice of fat pork.

Moose had eaten three plates of baked beans the night before, and the fart was almost as loud as a shotgun blast.

She pried the lid off the can of baked beans with the all-purpose knife and scooped some out with her fingers.

Sold for ten cents and served in the same bowls used for baked beans, spaghetti started as an experiment in Cincinnati and soon spread to most other areas.

Things would have continued to go well, thanks to the surveillance of the rural police and the church, if it had not been for a lean, long-legged, mean-visaged troublemaker whom the miners followed, but who the engineers named contemptuously Capitan Frijoles, Captain Baked Beans, the Windy One.

He could hear a clatter from the dining hall as he passed, and he smelled boiled ham and baked beans, but supper was the farthest thing from his mind.

And my bag had gone as well, which had Toby's food in it and my maths books and my clean pants and vest and shirt and the orange juice and the milk and the custard creams and the baked beans.

Then she fixed herself a huge supper of canned baked beans and knockwurst.

Immediately after sundown the Christians shut their shops, went home to their houses and rapidly at the meal prescribed for a time of fasting: baked beans, lettuce, raw artichokes, red fishes' roes, olives and sesame soup.