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To Stew Cranberries

This is a simple stewed cranberry dish cooked with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Stew Cranberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the cranberries.

Cook and strain

  1. Add the boiling water and cover tightly.

  2. Cook for six minutes.

  3. Stir with a wooden spoon and press through a colander.

Sweeten and serve

  1. Add the sugar and simmer for ten minutes.

  2. Serve hot or cold. It will jell when cold.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cranberries
Provide the tart fruit base and the pectin that lets the sauce jell when cooled.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the cranberries' tartness and helps the sauce set.

The step that matters

Cover tightly while cooking the cranberries. Keeping the lid on traps steam so the berries soften in their own moisture and boiling water. Lifting the lid early lets steam escape and can leave the fruit unevenly cooked and dry.

“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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