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Cranberry Sauce

A simple sauce made by cooking cranberries with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the cranberries.

  2. In a pot, combine the cranberries, hot water, and sugar.

  3. Cover and cook quickly until done.

  4. Add more sugar to taste if needed.

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 base that breaks down into the sauce body.
Sugar
Sweetens the sauce and balances the cranberries' natural tartness.

“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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