To Stew Cranberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and cook
Wash one quart of cranberries.
Add half pint of boiling water.
Cover closely and cook six minutes.
Stir with wooden spoon.
Press through colander.
Add one pint sugar.
Simmer ten minutes.
Serve
Serve hot or cold.
When cold it will jell.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cranberries
- Provide the main fruit body and tart flavor that the stew is built on.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the tart cranberries and, as it cooks with the fruit, helps the mixture thicken and set.
The step that matters
Simmer ten minutes after adding the sugar. Cranberries are very tart and the sugar needs time to dissolve and blend evenly. Cranberries contain natural pectin, and pectin sets as the mixture cools, so the stew jells when cold. Stop too early and it may stay runny.
“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.
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