slo’s TUESDAY 12/2 poll - Cranberry Sauce: Jellied vs Whole

[clappyclaps]

Can't stand cranberry sauce. Have a bit of a weird thing about certain savoury & sweet combos and fruit sauces like this with meat I just can't do.

 

[MamaMermaid]

I love me some canned cranberry sauce!

 

[LoveDaisy]

I love cranberry sauce. I make my own and can it. It allows me to eat it all year. I make an orange whole cranberry sauce.

 

[disykat]

Yes, the recipe I have used for years is a 12 ounce bag of cranberries, one cup water, one cup sugar. I used half a cup of sugar this year. I can't use any artificial sweeteners, they mess with my gut.

When I make cranberry sauce I add one large or two small apples and cut the sugar in half. This year I used a pear and only needed 1/3 c sugar. I've also used cherries or blueberries. Even fruit you might think of as tart needs less sugar than cranberries! I love to make cranberry sauce and always buy a bunch of cranberries for the freezer to have throughout the year. Lots of apple pie spice helps too!

When I make it, we like it chunky. When we buy the cans we like the jellied. I usually serve canned jellied cranberry sauce sliced next to a sliced orange. It feels "fancy!"

We love cranberries!

This year at Thanksgiving we had to laugh because we do it with friends. One of the twenty somethings made homemade cranberry sauce too and our little dishes of it looked almost identical. We compared notes and she had also used pears and apple pie spice! She had grown up having my cranberry apple sauce and it just seemed like the natural progression!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Now the question is what to do with leftovers? For some reason I thought I'd need 2 cans had have an entire can leftover.

I sometimes dump a can in the crock pot (mix it with water to thin it) to cook chicken thighs in

 

[kanne323]

I don't like the canned jellied sauce, but I like homemade whole-berry cranberry sauce. Someone asked about leftovers- cranberry sauce makes a great addition to a nice grilled cheese with cheddar on sourdough.

 

[Sweettears]

I cook whole cranberries in water add sugar and mash the berries. It turns out somewhere in the middle of the two

 

[Sweettears]

Cranberries are a fall fruit, so they're seasonal. Just like pumpkin this time of year.

I buy several bags when they are available and stick them in the freezer to use throughout the year. They freeze well.