Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Combine cranberries, sugar, and boiling water in a pot.
Cook for 10 minutes without stirring.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Cranberries
- Provide the tart fruit base and pectin that thickens the sauce as it cooks.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness that balances the tartness and helps the sauce set as it cools.
The step that matters
Cook for 10 minutes without stirring. Stirring can break the cranberry skins and release more pectin unevenly, leaving a cloudier or thinner sauce. Letting the mixture simmer undisturbed lets the skins burst gently and the sugar and pectin thicken evenly.
“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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