Name: Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients: 2 ½ cups cranberries; 1 heaping cup sugar; 1 ½ cups boiling water

Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

2 ½ cups cranberries
1 heaping cup sugar
1 ½ cups boiling water

Directions

Carefully pick over and wash the cranberries.
In a saucepan, combine the cranberries, sugar, and boiling water.
Cover and cook slowly for one hour.

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 flavor and, as they break down, the body of the sauce.
Sugar: Sweetens the sauce and balances the sharp acidity 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.