Every week we get questions about a summer staple, Grandma Brown’s Baked Beans — the perfect complement to your cook-outs and barbecues. Many of you have told us the beans are nowhere to be found.

Making brown butter is easy. It’s butter, plus heat, plus time: The butter is heated in the pan, then the water evaporates and the solids left behind start to caramelize and smell nutty.

Grandma Brown’s, the beans that keep warming the soul, if only in memory. Remarkable Rochesterians. At the time of her death in 1923 at age 92, ...