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Stewed Cranberries

Stewed cranberries are cooked with sugar and water until they burst.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the cranberries

  1. In a pot, combine water and sugar and bring to a boil.

  2. Once boiling, add the cranberries.

  3. Stir continuously until the cranberries are well cooked and begin to burst, about 10 minutes.

Set

  1. Dip a mold in cold water and pour the cooked cranberries into it.

  2. Let it set until the following day.

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
Their pectin and skins break down during cooking, giving the sauce body and a tart flavor.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the cranberries and helps them set into a firm, gel-like mass as they cool.

The step that matters

Cooking until the cranberries burst. Stirring continuously until the fruit breaks down releases enough pectin for the mixture to thicken and hold its shape. Undercooked cranberries stay firm and will not set properly in the mold.

“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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