My family loved this recipe. I didn't want to mess with soaking the beans over night, so I bought a large jar of northern beans instead. I added 1/4 cup water to the beans when putting them in the crockpot with the rest of the ingredients. It turned out fantastic. Wonderful flavor!

Wow.... This stuff is amazing. I brought it into work for a carry-in and EVERYONE was impressed! My bf is a butcher so he brought home some fresh cubed ham (yummy).. I used two jars of Randall's Great Northern Beans, sauteed the onions and ham together in butter, put all ingredients into crock pot and let cook all day long. I did cut back the brown sugar to just a couple of pinches. Best ham and beans I've ever had! Thanks for the post!

So yummy. I put it in the crock pot.I added a ham hock it so I increased the water. I put the water about an inch above the ham hock. I had too much liquid but drained some of it. Turned out great. It took about 10 hours to cook.

Slightly sweet, yummy! This is how I modified the recipe for a pressure cooker: 1st do the initial soak on the beans. 2nd, Later in the day when the beans had been soaking for a couple of hours I cooked them in my pressure cooker following the pressure cooker cookbook, using the maximum time reccomended. After the beans were cooked I drained them and added the rest of the ingredients, cutting back on the amount of water reccomended. Then I heated it all up and simmered for 15 minutes or so. Turned out great, the beans were very mushy like we like. Next time I may try adding all the ingrediants in with the beans as they cook.

I'm only giving this three stars because I didn't like it. It was so bland, I had to "doctor" it up a bit... and it still wasn't as good as everyone on this site claimed it to be. My husband however liked it and ate most of it.

Instead of using water I use chicken stock. I also soak the beans overnight in half water and half chicken stock. It gives the beans more flavor! I also use a couple bay leaves to had some more flavor.

I guess it's a matter of personal taste, but no one in my family enjoyed it. I cut the sugar way down as suggested, but it still came out too sweet for us.

Best ham and beans I ever made or tasted even the worst food critics in our family loved it.

The main change I made to this was using canned beans as I despise messing with dried beans. That created some guessing on water amounts etc., and I cooked it sort of "backwards." i.e. I put all the other ingredients in first, covered with water, and let that cook for a while to blend the flavors & bring the ham flavor out. Then added the (undrained) beans last so they wouldn't get mushy, and cooked a bit longer to heat them through. It ended up rather soupy, so I then let it cook down some more. I ended up liking it soupy better. LOL. Not a bad little recipe. Interestingly, I'm not into sweet stuff much, didn't read the reviews first, used all the brown sugar, and did not find this too sweet at all. It was a bit odd, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Very tasty! I'm not too keen on beans but these were nice. I put 2 slices bacon in to compensate for little bit of ham I had.

The recipe caught my eye because it called for brown sugar. I grew up in Southern MO and it all my years of making ham and beans I have never used that ingredient. It was a fantastic addition and added just a undertone of sweetness to the dish.

this is VERY good and very easy to make...I did make a few modifications, however (like many)...I used only about 2 Tbsp of brown sugar which was plenty for our tastes, used chicken broth instead of water, and used canned beans which saved a lot of time. Everyone in my family loved it.

WOW!! This was excellent!!! I didn't change a thing except for the cooking method; I dumped it all in a crockpot & cooked on high all day........YUMMY!!!

added 28 ounse can crushed tomatos.

very good.......I also make this with mixed beans, and no sugar.Either way, this is great!

Yummy...yum, yum. Even my daughter loved it and she hates beans! :-)