Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Another Thanksgiving sauce

I've never been big on cranberry sauce. Truth is, I never really tried it. I think the wiggling cylinder of red good in a bowl on my grandmother's table scared me when I was young (heck, my grandmother scared me, which is probably more to the root of why I never had it). But here, everyone craves the stuff. So I decided to try something new for everyone and actually make the sauce from fresh berries. When one of the kids saw it bubbling on the stove, she was surprised it was possible to actually make cranberry sauce. What did she think? That the cans grew on trees??

Here's a basic recipe:
1 bag of cranberries
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
Bring everything to a boil and reduce heat. Simmer until berries pop and sauce thickens, about an hour.

However I decided that if I was going to go to all the trouble, I would add extra layers of flavor to my sauce. So here's what I did:
1 bag of cranberries
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white sugar
3/4 cup orange juice
2 T water or rum
1 cinnamon stick
Bring everything to a boil and reduce heat. Simmer until berries pop and sauce thickens, about an hour. Remove cinnamon stick.

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