Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar together.
Wash the cranberries and remove any poor ones.
Drop the cleaned cranberries into the boiling syrup.
Cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
Strain if desired and serve with turkey.
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 flavor and pectin that thickens the sauce as it cooks.
- White sugar
- Sweetens the sauce and, dissolved in boiling water, forms the syrup the berries cook in.
The step that matters
Cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Cranberry skins pop as the fruit heats and pectin is released, which thickens the sauce. Stopping too early leaves it thin, while cooking too long can make it overly stiff as it cools.
“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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