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Cranberry Juice

Cranberry juice made by cooking cranberries, extracting juice, sweetening, and bottling.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over and wash the cranberries.

Extract the juice

  1. Add water, cover, and cook until very soft.

  2. Pour into a jelly bag and let the juice drip.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Add sugar to the juice, stir until dissolved, and heat to boiling.

  2. Pour into sterile bottles and seal.

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 flavour and colour that define the juice.
Water
Softens the berries and draws out their juice during cooking.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and balances the cranberries' natural tartness.

“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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