Name: Marie Paidar
Ingredients: one quart cranberries; one cup water; three cups sugar

Marie Paidar

Ingredients

one quart cranberries
one cup water
three cups sugar

Directions

Mix cranberries, water, and sugar.
Put the mixture in a pan.
Bake until the cranberries are tender.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Cranberries: Provide the tart fruit that softens and breaks down into a sauce as it bakes.
Sugar: Sweetens the cranberries and helps balance their sharp acidity.
Water: Adds moisture so the cranberries cook gently and do not scorch.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.