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Cranberry Water

A simple infusion made by steeping bruised cranberries in boiling water and sweetening to taste.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the bruised cranberries.

  2. Let the mixture stand for a few hours.

  3. Strain off the liquid.

  4. Sweeten to taste.

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 color that dominate the finished drink.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor and color from the bruised cranberries into the liquid.

“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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