Name: Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients: 2 cups cranberries; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup boiling water

Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

2 cups cranberries
1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water

Directions

Rinse the cranberries and place them in a large kettle.
Add the sugar and boiling water.
Cover and boil for about 10 minutes until soft.

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 body that softens and thickens into the sauce as they cook.
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.