I made sugar-free cranberry sauce this year

[jmowreader]

How to do so:

1. Gather the ingredients:
a bag of cranberries
a cup of Stevia In The Raw
a cup of water
a teaspoon of cornstarch

2. Wash the cranberries. Remove any stems, leaves, dead mice, etc., which may remain in the cranberries from the packing plant. (If you find a live mouse, return the bag to the store.)

3. Mix the three non-red ingredients in a 2-quart saucepan and stir the shit out of it to dissolve the cornstarch. Bring to a not-quite-boil.

4. Add the clean, stem-and-leafless, dead-mouse-free cranberries to the hot stuff, and bring to a slow boil.

5. Leave it alone until all the cranberries pop open, and then you're done.

[surrealAmerican]

1. The cornstarch should not be necessary.

Just use a bit less water. Cranberries are their own thickener.

[jmowreader]

5. Hmm...

The reason I used it is, I only wanted to do this once and I wasn't sure (because sugar & stevia are not the same thing) whether sugar was necessary to get the cranberry thickening thing to work.

[hippywife]

2. Glad you uses Stevia.

If you use any of the other supposedly sugar-free sweeteners, you're still using 95% sugar in some form or another.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Dead-mouse-free?!?!?!?

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[jmowreader]

8. It's not that...

It's that the fur changes the consistency of the final product.

[valerief]

4. I love using Stevia but I think I tried Stevia in the Raw and it wasn't good.

Until Purevia and Truvia became available (they're handily in the supermarket), I went to the health food store and got NuNaturals stevia.

Stevia in the Raw is also in the supermarket. Maybe I got a bad batch or used too much (a big no-no with Stevia) before.

Anyway, thanks for recipe!

[HopeHoops]

6. We've grown stevia each of the last few years. Very easy herb to grow and dry.

Unless you live pretty far south, it is strictly an annual so you'll have to be sure to harvest it before the first frost.

We have dried it both in the dehydrator and just by hanging it upside down. Both work fine. We mix a lot of our own herb teas and just a small amount of the crushed leaves will sweeten it really well.

[Lucinda]

9. Really good idea!

I may try growing some this year for my tea blends!

[whistler162]

7. I made low sugar cocktail sauce this year.

so was able to enjoy shrimp with cocktail sauce, and really spicey at that.