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17 years ago

A couple of weeks ago, somebody posted this recipe and I immediately saved it because I thought it looked delicious. We are having a pot-luck buffet at work this week and it's my job to bring the cranberries.

My questions:

1. Do you just put the bag of raw cranberries through the processor & how finely should they be chopped up?

2. When you are eating it, is the texture gritty? If the berries are raw, I would think the jello & apples & oranges & the berries would be a gritty combination.

I've never had this before but I have all the stuff to make it, just want to make sure I do it right.

Cranberry Jello

Ingredients:

4 oranges peeled and seeded

4 apples peeled and cored

1 lbs. cranberries washed

2 large and one small red gelatin (strawberry or cherry)

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup of boiling water

Directions:

Put all fruit through meat grinder. Mix sugar and gelatin with the boiling water and mix in to fruit mix. Pour in mold and refrigerate overnight. Invert on to platter and serve chilled.

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Comments (9)

monica_pa Grieves
17 years ago
The recipe says to put all the fruit through a meat grinder.
Cranberries are fruit.

Grind them.

PS - they are always ground for raw use, use whole only when cooking them. Raw cranberries are hard.
glenda_al
17 years ago
I remember helping mother grind cranberries for her relish.
One of those heavy metal ones that you attach to the kitcen cabinet counter top or table. With the hand crank!

And mincemeat for the pies as well.
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smilin54
Original Author
17 years ago
My mother had one of the hand crank grinders too...from her Wear Ever pots & pans. She died a few years ago and I don't know who got the grinder. It was a beauty. Mine was only a plastic one with a few lightweight metal parts & it broke about a month ago & I tossed it. I have a food processor and a blender, hopefully one of them will work.
kathyg_in_mi
17 years ago
I have my MIL's old grinder. We made sausage with it when the kids were little. They took turns turning the crank. These days I have a food processors that has a grinder attachment.
Twice a year DH goes to a buddies house for a sausage making party and he makes up 20 lbs. of sausage. This year he did 10 lbs of breakfast sausage and 10 of keilbasa. It is so good!
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marygailv
17 years ago
I have a craberry salad recipe and I always found the cranberries were easier to grind if they were frozen. I don't know if that would work in this recipe, just saying.
carol_in_california
17 years ago
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glenda_al
17 years ago
And remember how HEAVY those grinders were. Well, I was a youngster way back then and it was really heavy for me.
glenda_al
17 years ago
Does this bring back memories?

This recipe is similar to the one my mother used.
And sharing a muffin recipe. Love cranberry muffins.

CRANBERRY ORANGE RELISH
(No Cooking)

The aristocrat of relishes. Particularly good with all meats, hot or cold.

1 pound (4 cups) Cranberries
2 oranges
2 cups sugar
I remember mother added chopped pecans to hers, which I had to crack and shell.
Put cranberries through food chopper. Peel oranges, remove seeds and put rind and oranges trhough chopper. Mix with cranberries and sugar. Let stand for a few hours before serving. This easy, popular uncooked relish can be put up for future use in sterilized glasses covered with paraffin.
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1 cup Cranberries
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons melted butter

Chop cranberries and sprinkle with half the sugar. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and remaining sugar together. Beat egg slightly, combine with milk and melted butter and add to dry ingredients. Stir only until blended. Then fold in cranberries. Transfer to buttered muffin pans and bake in hot oven, 425 degrees F., about 25 minutes. Makes 12 medium sized muffins.
jannie
17 years ago
Did you know Jello makes Cranberry flavor jello? I've had it, it tastes fine.

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