Crown Roast Of Frankfurters With Baked Beans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400F. IN a medium saucepan, combine baked beans, onion, brown sugar and mustard. Stir till well mixed. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, till beans are warm, 10 to 15 min.
2. Meanwhile, rinse frankfurters and blot dry with paper towels. Spear 3 hotdogs together by pushing a toothpick horizantally thorugh upper third of franks. Repeat with remaining weiners.
3. Place a 6-inch-tall 1 1/2 to 2 qt baking dish about 4 1/2 inches in diameter (such as a bean pot) on an ovenproof serving platter. Lean frankfurters, skewered ends up, around outside edge of bean pot. Tie a piece of kitchen string around center of franks to secure them in a circle.
4. Remove toothpicks.
5. Transfer warm beans from saucepan to pot in center of franks and place platter and all in oven. Bake till weiners are golden and beans are bubbly, about 25 min. To serve, spoon beans directly form pot and use tongs to remove frankfurters.
6. This is sure to be a kid pleaser at celebrations where adult food would not be appreciated. I can remember, when I was a kid, my grandmother for New Year's Day celebrations would always serve Lutefisk - (that I hated - it just stood there on the platter - a gelatinous - fish smelling opaque mess which shook like a live jellyfish and we kids were expected to eat it). I would far rather have had warm dogs!