Cranberry Sauce, for Roast Turkey
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over and wash the cranberries.
Cook the sauce
In a saucepan, combine the cranberries, water, and sugar.
Cook slowly for 20 minutes.
Set and serve
Rinse a mold with cold water and pour in the stewed berries.
Set aside to cool.
When ready to serve, turn out onto a flat dish and cut off a thick slice.
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 flavor and the body that the sauce is built around.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the tart berries and helps the sauce set as it cools.
- Water
- Softens the berries as they cook and creates the liquid base for the sauce.
The step that matters
Cook slowly for 20 minutes. Gentle cooking keeps the berries intact while their skins soften and release pectin, which lets the sauce thicken and hold its shape when cooled.
“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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