Cranberry sauce

[Further]

I love cranberry sauce, the stuff in the can or homemade. We make it every year, with varying results, I don't seem to be capable of doing the same thing twice.

Anyhow, this years is the best I've ever made. I would like to try it as a pie filling. Maybe add some chopped walnuts, but my wife can't eat walnuts.

A bag of cranberries in a sauce pan

enough water to cover them

an orange, scrape the zest off, chop up the good stuff and toss in with the cranberries

a bit of cinnamon

a bit of nutmeg

a touch of cayenne

sugar to taste

bring to boil, turn down to simmer and keep stirring and mushing the berries till it gets as thick as you want

taste while reducing, the sugar and spices can be adjusted 

[Kirby]

I don't really like the texture, but it makes me happy to see canned Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce on the table with the ridges on the side.  It's tradition!

[Further]

Nobody has a cranberry sauce recipe ?

Or are ya'all keeping secrets ?

[Bikeguy]

59 minutes ago, Further said:

I love cranberry sauce, the stuff in the can or homemade. We make it every year, with varying results, I don't seem to be capable of doing the same thing twice.

Anyhow, this years is the best I've ever made. I would like to try it as a pie filling. Maybe add some chopped walnuts, but my wife can't eat walnuts.

A bag of cranberries in a sauce pan

enough water to cover them

an orange, scrape the zest off, chop up the good stuff and toss in with the cranberries

a bit of cinnamon

a bit of nutmeg

a touch of cayenne

sugar to taste

bring to boil, turn down to simmer and keep stirring and mushing the berries till it gets as thick as you want

taste while reducing, the sugar and spices can be adjusted 

And that's why buying it in a can is soooo much easier for people like me.  Our big choice is jellied or whole cranberry sauce in the can.

[Further]

Just now, Bikeguy said:

And that's why buying it in a can is soooo much easier for people like me.  Our big choice is jellied or whole cranberry sauce in the can.

But when you get it right.....it's like your mouth has an orgasm.....

and there is anticipation...and nervousness...

it's fun

[Kirby]

But homemade doesn't have the can ridges!

[Further]

8 minutes ago, Kirby said:

But homemade doesn't have the can ridges!

No reason you can't have both

[Kirby]

2 minutes ago, Further said:

No reason you can't have both

True,

[Page Turner]

1 hour ago, Further said:

Nobody has a cranberry sauce recipe ?

Or are ya'all keeping secrets ?

...I make it the same way my mom did, but I have the advantage of using oranges right off the tree.

Today I picked three ripe Satsuma mandarins off the tree, quartered and seeded them (leaving the skins on). put them in a food processer with one 12 ounce bag of fresh cranberries, added a little less than half a cup of sugar, and  blipped the blade a few times, so everything got chopped up, but not too finely. You don't want it pureed, just evenly chopped and blended. Let it sit for about an hour, or overnight, before serving. No cooking required. Takes minutes to prepare.

My mom had to use naval oranges from Florida, which are not as good, but still work.

[Wilbur ★]

2 hours ago, Further said:

I love cranberry sauce, the stuff in the can or homemade. We make it every year, with varying results, I don't seem to be capable of doing the same thing twice.

Anyhow, this years is the best I've ever made. I would like to try it as a pie filling. Maybe add some chopped walnuts, but my wife can't eat walnuts.

A bag of cranberries in a sauce pan

enough water to cover them

an orange, scrape the zest off, chop up the good stuff and toss in with the cranberries

a bit of cinnamon

a bit of nutmeg

a touch of cayenne

sugar to taste

bring to boil, turn down to simmer and keep stirring and mushing the berries till it gets as thick as you want

taste while reducing, the sugar and spices can be adjusted 

Being we had a blueberry farm when I was growing up, it was half cranberries, half blueberries, the juice and rind of a mandarin orange, water and sugar to taste. 

[Longjohn ★]

8 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...I make it the same way my mom did, but I have the advantage of using oranges right off the tree.

Today I picked three ripe Satsuma mandarins off the tree, quartered and seeded them (leaving the skins on). put them in a food processer with one 12 ounce bag of fresh cranberries, added a little less than half a cup of sugar, and  blipped the blade a few times, so everything got chopped up, but not too finely. You don't want it pureed, just evenly chopped and blended. Let it sit for about an hour, or overnight, before serving. No cooking required. Takes minutes to prepare.

My mom had to use naval oranges from Florida, which are not as good, but still work.

That’s what I make but I add spices and sometimes walnuts. I use a meat grinder.

[ChrisL]

We had an orange cranberry sauce and it was good.  I went light on it tho. 

[Randomguy]

I also add blueberries often, and cut the water in favor of orange juice if I have it, then halve the sugar.  It is remarkably easy to make, I am kind of shocked that people wouldn't want to do it themselves.

Never thought of cayenne, might have to try that!

[groupw]

I do the standard cranberry sauce with orange, but I chop up a habanero pepper and add it as the berries start to boil. Simple, but really good!

[Airehead]

16 hours ago, Further said:

Nobody has a cranberry sauce recipe ?

Or are ya'all keeping secrets ?

Mine is also uncooked.  Put an orange and cranberries through the grinder. Add a little of this and that and put in fridge.