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Homemade Cranberry sauce ?

13 years ago

Do you make your own? Do you have a favorite recipe?

I made it one time and I hated the seeds in it. I found this recipe for a crock pot I was going to try.

Its from ~ "A Year of Slow Cooking"

CROCKPOT CRANBERRY SAUCE

12 oz cranberries (fresh or frozen)

1/2 cup orange juice

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon

The Directions.

I used a 1.5 quart crock pot.

Rinse off the cranberries and put them into your crock pot. Add the orange juice and water. I had the kids squeeze fresh juice, but you can use store-bought if that's what you have on hand.

Add the sugar and the cinnamon. Stir. There will be an awful lot of liquid, and the cranberries will float and you'll wonder how on earth it could possibly turn into cranberry sauce.

Cover and cook on high. It will take about 3 hours.

Stir every hour or so. When the skin from the cranberries has softened, the cranberries will "pop" when pushed with a spoon up against the side of the crock. It wasn't until about 2 hours in that my cranberries were soft enough to do this.

Smoosh all of the cranberries. Stir well.

Heat enough for it to be warm throughout. Take the lid off and heat on high for another 30 to 45 minutes. Your house will smell wonderful!

Serve. This easily can be made a few days before your holiday dinner.

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Comments (6)

sheilajoyce_gw
13 years ago
I like the fresh cranberry sauce. Chop in the food processor one package of fresh cranberries and one whole orange cut in 8ths for easier processing. Mix them in a large mixing bowl with 1 cup of granulated sugar. You can also add chopped walnuts if you like, but I make mine without nuts. Chill a couple of hours. Serve in a pretty bowl.
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13 years ago
sheilajoyce, You don't cook it?
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lilliepad
13 years ago
I make it like SJ and no it isn't cooked.Delicious! I add pecans to mine and sometimes use canned mandarin oranges.I could eat it like fruit salad(and sometimes do).It's good on top of plain/pound cake and even vanilla ice cream.Try it!
glenda_al
13 years ago
Never made it, but used to watch my mother using the old grinder.

Think she added nuts as well.

This is old fashioned cranberry relish

2 cups washed raw cranberries
2 skinned and cored tart apples
1 large, whole (peel ON) seedless orange, cut into sections
1 to 2 cups granulated sugar (depending on how sweet you would like your relish to be)
Method
1 Set up the grinder with a medium-sized blade on the edge of a table with a large roasting pan or bowl to catch the mix as it grinds. These old fashioned grinders tend to leak some of the juice down the grinder base, so you may want to set up an additional pan on the floor under the grinder to catch the drips. If you don't have an old-fashioned grinder you can use a grinder attachment on a KitchenAid mixer, you can chop by hand (though that will take a lot of work), or you can chop in a food processor (be very careful not to over-pulse, or you'll end up with mush).

2 Run fruit through a grinder. Use the entire (seedless) orange, peels, pith and all.

3 Mix in the sugar. Let sit at room temperature until sugar dissolves, about 45 minutes. Store in the refrigerator.

Makes about 3 cups.
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13 years ago
This is the recipe I have used for over 20 years.

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gardenspice
13 years ago
Yum, Gran marnier. I'll have to try that.
I add crushed pineapple to mine and cut the sugar a bit.

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