Name: Cranberry Pie
Ingredients: 1 quart cranberries; 1½ cups sugar; ½ cup water; rich pie crust

Cranberry Pie

Ingredients

1 quart cranberries
1½ cups sugar
½ cup water
rich pie crust

Directions

Prepare

Line a pie plate with the rich crust.
Cut strips of crust for the top.

Make the filling

Cook cranberries, sugar, and water for 15 minutes.

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 tart fruit base and bulk of the filling.
Sugar: Sweetens the cranberries and balances their tartness.
Rich pie crust: Forms the structure holding the filling, with fat adding tenderness.

“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.