Name: Cranberry-pie
Ingredients: 1 cup cranberries, picked and washed; ½ cup sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 pie crust

Cranberry-pie

Ingredients

1 cup cranberries, picked and washed
½ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 pie crust

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Assemble

Spread the cranberries on the bottom pie crust.
Sprinkle the sugar and salt over the cranberries.
Cover with the top crust and bake until golden.

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 fruit filling that the sugar sweetens and balances.
Sugar: Sweetens the cranberries and offsets their natural tartness.
Pie crust: Forms the base and top enclosing the filling while it bakes.

“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.