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Offline Spuddy

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Cooking beans with black powder
« on: January 10, 2010, 01:38:43 AM »
Ok, so the title is a bit misleading.  I don't actually cook baked beans with black powder, but black powder is burned during the process. These videos were taken yesterday January 9th at my dad's sugar shack in Maine.  It was 14 degrees outside.  I was baking 3 pounds of yellow eye beans in a dutch oven.  The oven has to be turned every 1/2 hour and the beans need to bake for 4 hours. You can understand that there is alot of time to shoot cannons between turns.  The cannon has a 3/4" bore.  I got it on Ebay and was told that it was made by South Bend Replicas.  It is cast with a steel sleeve.  My dad made the carriage out of some left over mahogany.  It was a fun day and the beans came out great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YK1DMLBQNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smkLxJc4fng
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 01:45:22 AM »
Boy those beans have a loud bang!!  :)
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2010, 01:47:35 AM »
Quote from: Double D on January 10, 2010, 01:45:22 AM
Boy those beans have a loud bang!!  :)
I try to remove the snappers, but I can't get them all. :D
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2010, 03:03:25 AM »
Looks good Spuddy . How many cannons in the collection now?

Brian.
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2010, 04:44:44 AM »
Sugar shack cannon range . Thats a nice one .I'd like to see close ups of the barrel .
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2010, 07:14:28 AM »
Right now some of that maple butter spread sound good!

Cannon looks good too! ;D
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2010, 09:47:33 AM »
how about the beans ??
did they taste sulphur ??   ;D
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2010, 12:45:33 AM »
 Sorry, but with that post title, I just had to re-post these...





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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2010, 04:14:26 AM »
When I was in the Army it was common knowledge that the beans would kill you; but not like THAT!   ;D
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2010, 06:18:03 AM »
Beans, beans, the musical fruit,
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot the happier you feel,
So let's eat beans with every meal.
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2010, 09:45:42 AM »
Quote from: phantom on January 10, 2010, 03:03:25 AM
Looks good Spuddy . How many cannons in the collection now?

Brian.

4 Cannons
2 Mortars
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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2010, 08:20:43 PM »
So now 'The Sugar Shack' has it's own battery ?  ;D

For a really ignorant southerner gone west , I have a question.... I'm guessing the 'shack has something to do with collecting maple syrup , does it ?  ???

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Re: Cooking beans with black powder
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2010, 11:23:43 PM »
Quote from: RocklockI on January 11, 2010, 08:20:43 PM
So now 'The Sugar Shack' has it's own battery ?  ;D

For a really ignorant southerner gone west , I have a question.... I'm guessing the 'shack has something to do with collecting maple syrup , does it ?  ???



Gary, you got it.  The shack is the small building where maple sap that has been collected is boiled down into maple syrup.  We have only a few taps. 50 to be exact, so the building dosen't have to be very big.  It is called a shack because you would not want to boil down sap in your cabin, but in your shack it is ok.  It takes about 40 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of syrup.  All of that steam is vented out of the roof of the building through a structure on the peak.
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