Cranberries, How to Cook
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the berries
Wash the cranberries.
Put them in a covered saucepan with water.
Simmer until each berry bursts open.
Do not stir the berries while cooking.
Add sugar and boil
Remove the cover and add sugar.
Boil for twenty minutes without the cover.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cranberries
- Provide the tart flavour and natural pectin that thickens the sauce as the berries burst.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the sauce, balances the tartness, and helps thicken the syrup as it boils.
The step that matters
Do not stir the berries while cooking. Stirring breaks the berries apart as they soften, which makes the sauce cloudy and mushy instead of holding a whole-berry texture.
“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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