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Cranberry Sauce

A sauce made by boiling cranberries, stewing them, sweetening, and preparing in advance.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pour boiling water over the cranberries to separate the good from the bad.

Make the sauce

  1. Stew the cranberries in a small amount of water until soft, then sweeten to taste.

Serve

  1. Prepare the sauce the day before serving.

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 flavor and pectin that thickens the sauce as it cooks and cools.
Sugar
Balances the cranberries' tartness with sweetness.

“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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