Since I was making baked beans for the very first time, I decided to follow the recipe to the letter.  And, I was doing quite well up until the instructions called for cooking the sauce for 6 minutes.

Now, if the recipe called for cooking the sauce for 5 minutes or even 10, I wouldn’t have thought anything of it.  But, 6 minutes sounded a little, well, fussy.  I mean it sounded like 5 minutes would have been too short and 7 minutes too long.

So, I put the sauce on the stove and when I remembered it, I added it to the baked beans.  And, as far as I can tell, the bean were just  fine.