I don't have a recipe, but over on the "Up the East Coast" thread, I just wrote about how for family gatherings on the Fourth, my mother used to make baked beans, starting with dried lima beans (you soak them overnight before you cook them) and using lots of brown sugar, molasses, and bacon.
Jeff, this dish sounds very similar to a traditional Swedish dish,
bruna bönor - brown beans.
It's also made of beans, sweatened and served with smoked pork.
I hated it in school, and have never eaten it since.
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