Name: Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients: 1 quart cranberries; ½ cup sorghum or cane syrup; 3 cups water

Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

1 quart cranberries
½ cup sorghum or cane syrup
3 cups water

Directions

Combine cranberries, water, and syrup in a pot.
Cook over medium heat until the cranberries are soft, about 20 minutes.

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 and bulk of the sauce, softening as they cook.
Sorghum or cane syrup: Adds sweetness to balance the cranberries' tartness.
Water: Provides liquid so the cranberries can simmer and soften evenly.

“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.