Baked beans are an ancient New England specialty.
Fish cakes, usually made from codfish, used to be a very common New England dish for all three main meals of the day.
“Traditionally the Yankee breakfast has been a fine, warm affair, a minor feast that can hold its own with any other meal. Yankees rose early (most of them still do), and the chores that had to be done while breakfast was prepared produced a happy appetite for fish cakes, baked beans and pie. The only restriction to dishes that should please a hungry man was that they had to be something kept over from the day before or possible to cook in a reasonably short time.’’
-- Sara B.B. Stamm, in Favorite New England recipes (1972)
