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To Stew Cranberries

A simple stewed cranberry dish made with cranberries, sugar, and water.

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

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Dissolve the sugar in a small amount of water.

  2. Boil the sugar solution for 10 minutes and skim it well.

Stew the cranberries

  1. Add the cranberries to the sugar and boil slowly until they are 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cranberries
Provide the tart fruit that softens into the stewed sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, dissolved and boiled, thickens the syrup it cooks in.

The step that matters

Boil the sugar solution and skim it well. Boiling dissolved sugar concentrates the syrup and skimming removes foam and impurities that would cloud the finished sauce and spoil its clear appearance.

“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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