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The Anchor Staff
| 02 July 2009
Mark Saturday, July 18, on your calendar! It's the evening when the Harpswell scouts will be offering their traditional bean-hole supper from 5-7 PM at Mitchell Field, down by the waterfront. The public is invited to attend.
This year the overall event will be under the direction of Eric Field. In charge of preparing the beans is Dale McLaughlin. "I've got 59 years of tradition and the secret sauce recipe to back me up," he quipped. McLaughlin and his crew will be observing the traditional procedure for cooking beans in a bean-hole, a technique that involves digging a four foot deep by four foot square hole in the ground and filling it with hardwood, which is then lit and the roaring fire allowed to burn for hours until there is nothing left but extremely hot, glowing coals. After that, several special, heavy stainless kettles full of a mixture of pork, secret sauce and parboiled beans are lowered into the hole atop the coals, covered with a steel plate and subsequently buried. The beans are left undisturbed to simmer in the classified mixture for a unique flavor that cannot be achieved any other way. "There are many ways to cook beans," noted Fields, "And while this one is the most hard work and most time-consuming, the results are certainly well worth it."










