Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Make the sauce
Stew the cranberries in enough water to cover them.
Strain the mixture through a colander.
Add the sugar and cook for 10 to 15 minutes.
Cool and serve
Let it cool and serve with turkey or chicken.
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 base and most of the sauce's body as they break down.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the tart berries and helps the sauce set and thicken as it cools.
The step that matters
Cooking after adding the sugar. Sugar and the berries' natural pectin help the sauce set as it cools. Cooking it for the stated 10 to 15 minutes lets it thicken without over-reducing it.
“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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