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This is the only true cranberry sauce.
I wont be taking questions at this time.
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SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)This is the one true sauce.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)except for these
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Delish!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)But I do make the stupid sauce for other members of my family.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I like homemade cranberry sauce or relish.
woodsprite
(11,913 posts)What I can't stand is raw cranberry relish where you grind up cranberries (fresh from the bag), oranges (including their peels), walnuts, and add tons of sugar. My MIL dishes everybody's plate up and everyone gets a salad bowl full of that. YUCK!!!
niyad
(113,284 posts)Our group loves it. Of course, I don't add walnuts. I do add Pom Aprils and finely diced habanero sauce, and very little sugar. After t-day, you can run any left-over relish through the food processor with cream cheese. Great spread for turkey sandwiches.
Will be doing it for myself this year. We, of course, will not have our holiday get together.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)but not sure about it being the one true cranberry sauce.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)I don't care how good the homemade is - 'cause I make a really good one. Still, give me the canned and let me be.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Our state grows tons of cranberries.
Still the canned slime is trueThanksgiving.
We took a can to our Costa Rica restaurant last year for Thanksgiving.
They did t serve and we were ????
Just before dessert she brought it out cubed with toothpicks for service.
She thought it was a dessert item.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)Yes, I cook the berries down a bit & add a lot of ingredients.
I put both the canned sauce, along with my h.m. on the table. Guess which is eaten. 😁
cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)I have always preferred homemade. The canned jelly seems way to sweet for me and has a off taste, I love the tang of homemade and the way I can control the flavors. You can even add some maple syrup instead of sugar for a different taste that is really quite exceptional.
When you control the cook, you control the flavor, experimenting is half the fun of cooking.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)👍
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)It's what Mom always used. She would use her egg slicer in it and we'd get cranberry circles.
58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)mopinko
(70,090 posts)it's jelly.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)I like my home-made recipe...
A bag of whole, raw cranberries and half an orange (unpeeled), grind up in food processor and add two Tablespoons of some kind of sweetener and 2 T of brandy. It's more like a relish but it's the best!
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)I also put a bag of whole raw cranberries in the food processor...fresh lime juice and the zest of one lime...a diced jalapeño and sweeten to taste. Sweet, tart and a little spicy...very fresh.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)That sounds good too! The recipe I use came from my friend from eastern Europe, she has some of the best recipes on the planet. The jalapeno might be a bit much for me but I can see where it would be a good variation.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)Try a half a pepper...seeded and deveined. Does your friend from Eastern Europe live here now? Folks from other corners of the world have secrets to share!
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)She has been my dearest friend and mentor when it comes to food and natural medicines. She's not going to be around a lot longer, I fear as her health has been failing and yesterday she said she thinks she may have covid.
But in the 28 years that we have known each other, I have picked her brain for good foods, she wins "stump the chef" every time, she's also a cultural anthropologist. And she is a superb chef, or was until she fell ill a couple years ago. She introduced me to all kinds of foods, including goat roast which is actually good and is much like pork roast.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)I am hopeful she doesnt have Covid. Dammit! She sounds like a wonderful friend. Im sorry shes not doing well. Why is it the most evil people seem to thrive?
Ive never eaten goat but my husband had goat roasted on a spit over an open fire when he was in Mexico. He said it was just wonderful. I would love to try it.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)Croatian style, dredged in paprika. She uses Hungarian paprika a lot so I am guessing that's what kind she used. It was very good. She used to feed me a lot when I was in college, her husband was my Latin and French professor. They sort of adopted me early in my Freshman year.
She also made her own filo dough and would stretch it across the dining table and make huge strudels that when baking would fill the neighborhood with wonderful aromas. Friends passing by would stop in for a taste whenever she baked one as if the smells caught them by the nose and pulled them to the door. She was always cooking something and even did a bit of catering.
I've learned so much from her, kind of made up for my not having a mother in my home after age nine. So I will always cherish her friendship, probably more than my actual mother, who is not doing well either.
magicarpet
(14,145 posts)So that lived in a can look can be eliminated,... ? The visual is so important when it comes to food presentation. Who wants a red tin can in the middle of a holiday dinning table ? Maybe a few sprigs of curly parsley for color ?
bamagal62
(3,256 posts)We always had both on our table growing up. But the canned one always grossed me out.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)but there were some years we had the canned. I never told her I preferred the canned. I dont know whymaybe its a texture thing. Homemade cranberry sauce, no matter how tasty, always has more of a relish/chutney texture which seems unnecessary when there is so much other stuff going on in the meal. Just give me a little spoonful of cranberry gel next to the turkey and dressing and Im good.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)to me, this will always be what is served at Thanksgiving, as it was what was always served at Thanksgiving when I was growing up. Thanksgiving for me has always been a nostalgia holiday, just like Christmas.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)something to feel nostalgic about
happybird
(4,606 posts)It spreads so well on a sandwich, too.
Gawd, I love Thanksgiving! Best meal and leftovers of the year!
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Already have my can.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Totally agree. Call it a hattip to childhood, nostalgia gone wild but I just picked up a can of Oceanspray cranberry sauce. Because Thanksgiving turkey wouldn't taste as good without it. I've tried the fancier, more expensive, all fresh recipes but . . .
The picture above? It's the old and true.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)You younguns on this forum don't remember a time where there really weren't that many food choices to be had. Growing up in the 50's and 60's most of us had this on the Thanksgiving table. When I was a child I hated it and wouldn't eat it, but it became an acquired taste as I got older, maybe late teens. It's the only time of year I would ever have it though and only with turkey.
Ah, nostalgia is what us old folks live for these days.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)That is all we had too. In fact, except when the garden was active, most vegetables came from a can from the store or a canning jar and in later years, the freezer. But I rarely eat anything from a can for the past several decades.
llmart
(15,536 posts)My mother had a repertoire of about six dinners that she just rotated weekly. The variety of items in our grocery stores, especially the more upscale specialty stores today still amazes me. We lived in a rural area so summers were nothing but fresh veggies most of the time and then my mother canned for winter. We didn't have a freezer other than the tiny one on top of the Kelvinator. We had canned veggies from the store (yuck) in the winter also. There were only a few varieties of those also.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)too much like jelly.. the taste is okay, but the texture creeps me out..
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)I was fascinated by this as a kid.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)RainCaster
(10,870 posts)Makes a great addition to a turkey sandwich, too.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)Sauce is fluid, not jellied. That being said, this is my favorite cranberry delivery system, so I halfway agree with Horsewhisperer.
Aussie105
(5,388 posts)What are the ingredients?
10% cranberry, 90 % gelatin, coloring and preservatives?
Offensive to dead turkeys, that is!
ancianita
(36,053 posts)WVreaper
(620 posts)Late October we venture into the local cranberry bogs to pick berries. One of the only things that I like out of a can is one of the local craft beers.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)on Spam loves it to this day. And why I love the processed pimento cheese of my youth.
But this stuff? Just no.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)To pop a can in the fridge.. let it chill
Than sit down and eat the whole can.
I love cranberries.
Now that I'm diabetic
I eat a few frozen cranberries with a dusting of stevia.