Beans Beans the Wonderful Fruit

I made the baked beans today with the corn and Zuchini Delight. the Corn and Suash delight was really easy and yummy. The baked beans were a little complicated. I'm not sure how to make the beans soften more, they seam really hard, but maybe that's 'cause i'm used to baked beans in a can? I added a little brown sugar and KC BBQ sauce to the recipe. The sauce was good but the beans were a little harder than I expected.