Having grown up in New England, I'm accustomed to baked beans with cubes of salt pork, rather than bits of bacon. The traditional "go to" brand of store bought baked beans in my family for decades was B&M brand. Sadly, B&M has been bought out by one of the congomerates, and their "Original" baked beans is now NOT the original. It now contains salt pork flavor (they say), but it no longer actually has any salt pork in it.
I'm a widower, so I don't feel like making a big pot of beans and salt pork from scratch. What I'd like to do is buy canned vegetarian baked beans and add some cubes of salt pork. I can buy a slab of salt pork at the supermarket, but I have no idea how to prepare it before adding it to the beans. I know I have to blanch it to remove as much of the salt as possible. Then what? I sort of tink I should just boil it for awhile, but for how long? A few minutes? A whole lotta minutes?
Advice welcome.