Name: Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients: 1 quart cranberries; 1 pint sugar; ½ pint water

Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

1 quart cranberries
1 pint sugar
½ pint water

Directions

Boil the cranberries with sugar and water for 20 minutes.
Pour into a serving dish.
Serve when cool.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Cranberries: Provide the tart fruit flavor and pectin that thickens the sauce as it cooks.
Sugar: Sweetens the sauce and balances the tartness of the cranberries.

“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.