baked beans

noun

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

: beans that have been softened by soaking and boiling and then baked usually with salt pork and seasoning

Baked beans is a summer classic.

—Kathie Smith

"Baked beans is not the kind of thing we want to serve," said David Woodward, chef at Apley's, an elegant eatery in the Sheraton Hotel.

—Fox Butterfield

I leave it to you to decide whether your baked beans are tomato-less or spiced up with those juicy cylinders of flavor.

—Doris Reynolds

see also boston baked beans

Examples of baked beans in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

American baked beans are sweeter and smokier due to molasses, brown sugar, and meat. —Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 28 May 2026

This place is for Brits and their admirers with bangers and baked beans for breakfast, a dining room for high tea, and a pub equipped with dart boards and signs pointing to the loo. yeoldekingshead.com No. 36 is Lucky Baldwin’s Pub at 17 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. —Fielding Buck, Daily News, 28 May 2026

Wealth + Entrepreneurship Bush Brothers sells 80% of America’s canned baked beans, and now its fourth-generation chairman Drew Everett wants Bush’s to be known as just America’s Bean Company. —Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

Think: cornbread, baked beans, potato salad and marinated slaw. —Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

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