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To Cook Cranberries

A simple dish of cranberries cooked with water and sugar until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Cook Cranberries

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the cranberries

  1. Add water to cranberries in a pot.

  2. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in sugar and cook for another 10 minutes, stirring often.

Set

  1. Pour into a bowl and let cool until it sets like jelly.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cranberries
Provide the fruit body and tartness that the cooked sauce is built around.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, with the cranberries' pectin, helps the mixture thicken and set as it cools.

The step that matters

Stirring in the sugar and cooking it for 10 minutes. Stirring often keeps the sugar from scorching on the bottom of the pot. Cranberries contain natural pectin, and sugar helps it gel as the mixture cools, so cooking long enough matters for a good set.

“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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