With Thanksgiving coming up. what type of cranberries do you like--jellied in can, whole in can,

[debm55]

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freshly made cranberries, or I hate cranberries.
I prefer jellied in can, ocean spray, my husband prefers homemade sauce. I like to add to my sandwches the next day. Actually, cranberries are good for women's health, I don;t know about men.

[MLAA]

1. Need I say more?

[debm55]

6. That is so funny. I slice them on the plate.

[MLAA]

10. So do I! But with that reaction I might try putting them on a plate intact!

[Marthe48]

9. lol!

I like to make sauce from fresh berries. But I like the canned too.

[intrepidity]

37. Would have liked to been present for that ad idea pitch. nt

[woodsprite]

2. I like either jellied (Ocean spray) -OR- my apricot brandy whole cranberry sauce :) nt

[debm55]

16. Apricot brandy cranberries sounds good.

[Scrivener7]

19. Ooooh. Could you post the recipe?

[woodsprite]

52. Apricot Brandy Cranberry Sauce

1 bag of fresh Ocean Spray cranberries (12 ounces)
1.5 cups of granulated sugar
1/4-1/3 cup apricot brandy (or brandy and oj)
1-2 tbsp orange zest
1/4 tsp cinnamon
A pinch of black pepper, nutmeg, and cloves

Put all in a pan on the stove and bring to a boil. Cook until cranberries start to burst, then lower heat to a simmer and cook to desired consistency (about 10-15 min). Sauce will thicken on cooling.

This is also really good as a glaze on baked chicken.

[Scrivener7]

53. Wow! Thank you so much. Definitely trying this!

[Scrivener7]

67. Oh. My. God! This is crazy! I just made it and I think I'll probably be eating

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it by the ladle-full till Thursday. It might not make it to the table.

It must be amazing on chicken. And don't laugh, but I bet it would be great on a dish of vanilla ice cream too.

Thank you so much for this recipe. A new tradition!!!

[emulatorloo]

3. Frozen. And then make homemade sauce. We stock up on them, great for cranberry muffins

all year round!

[debm55]

26. Love cranberry muffins.

[Ocelot II]

4. Made-from-scratch tastes better, but I love dumping out the jellied stuff

into a dish, it goes *splort* and it keeps the imprints of the inside of the can.

[debm55]

8. So true. And it will stain the plate.

[LisaM]

5. Two ways.

Cranberry - orange relish (it's also surprisingly good with some fresh jalapenos added, though I would just do that for leftovers).

Cranberry sauce made from scratch, just reduced on the stove with sugar.

I have also used that for leftovers by reducing further, adding orange juice and bourbon, and serving with creamy soft cheese.

But for T-Day dinner - either the relish or the sauce. I know people who love the jellied sauce from the can and I am happy to buy that for people who want it.

[debm55]

17. That's what hubby makes--cranberry orange sauce. It's nice you think of us Jellied people.

:0}

[Fla Dem]

7. Like all cranberry products, especially cranberry sauce made from fresh cranberries.

[debm55]

11. But they have these hairy things on them if you make from scratch.

[MuseRider]

12. Cranberry Salsa.

Mmmmmm.

[debm55]

27. Sounds very good. Do you make?

[MuseRider]

32. Yes, it is great

with the dinner, just a little or a lot of kick but it is also absolutely fantastic with cream cheese.

There are a ton of recipes but I like this one https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/141135/cranberry-salsa/ SO quick and easy.

[XanaDUer2]

13. Canned nt

[debm55]

23. Me--canned, husband fresh

[questionseverything]

46. So you are a mixed marriage!

[debm55]

47. yes, we are.He does Thanksgiving, I do Christmas.

[questionseverything]

49. Good compromise!

[EYESORE 9001]

14. I'm making cranberry Brie pie this year

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/cranberry-brie-pie/

I’m not great about following recipes to the letter, but it’ll basically be the same as the one at the link.

[debm55]

22. Eyesore, thank you for the link

[emulatorloo]

36. That sounds great! Thanks!

[Elessar Zappa]

15. All of it.

I usually make homemade sauce with fresh cranberries but I like the jellied cranberry sauce also.

[debm55]

20. Thank you.

[NotASurfer]

18. Juice, with some tequila

Triple sec, lime, ice, maybe some lightly spiced sugar on the rim. That'll do for me

[debm55]

21. Sounds good

[Danmel]

24. I always make cranberry margaritas for Thanksgiving

https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/cranberry-margaritas/

[debm55]

33. Danmel, thanks for the link. Will have to try it

[hlthe2b]

41. Yum... that's my kind of cranberry at Thanksgiving.

[Glorfindel]

25. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without this recipe:

Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish

2 cups whole raw cranberries, washed

1 small onion

3/4 cup sour cream

1/2 cup sugar

2 tablespoons horseradish from a jar ("red is a bit milder than white&quot

Grind the raw berries and onion together. ("I use an old-fashioned meat grinder," says Stamberg. "I'm sure there's a setting on the food processor that will give you a chunky grind — not a puree.&quot

Add everything else and mix.

Put in a plastic container and freeze.

Early Thanksgiving morning, move it from freezer to refrigerator compartment to thaw. ("It should still have some little icy slivers left.&quot

The relish will be thick, creamy, and shocking pink. ("OK, Pepto Bismol pink. It has a tangy taste that cuts through and perks up the turkey and gravy. Its also good on next-day turkey sandwiches, and with roast beef.&quot

Makes 1 1/2 pints.

Yumm.

[debm55]

31. Glorified, sounds great.I was going to say from the ingredients it would have a slight kick to it.

Thank you for the recipe.

[hlthe2b]

42. I would like this on the day-after turkey sandwiches. Not sure I'd ever put a sufficient dent in

it to avoid major waste, but it does sound sort of good.

[tblue37]

28. jellied in can

[debm55]

34. My type of person. :0)

[highplainsdem]

29. I prefer whole-berry sauce but always have guests who prefer jellied, so I buy both, and make

homemade sauce if I have time.

[Delmette2.0]

55. I could enjoy any of the three types.

Just so there is a turkey and stuffing to to with it!.

[highplainsdem]

57. With my family, when my nieces and nephew were still kids and

we'd have 15-20 people here, it was usually turkey and ham, two kinds of dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, at least two other cooked veggies, and usually at least three kinds of pie, with at least two pumpkin pies, Dutch apple, and cherry, and vanilla ice cream as well as whipped cream, because they couldn't agree on that either. Not to mention half a closet full of everyone's favorite soda, from 6 packs to cases.

I'd sometimes go lie down after getting dinner ready.

But I do miss those days. And the cat who shared my life then and would NOT leave the kitchen while the turkey was roasting, until it was done and she was given some.

[Delmette2.0]

59. That sounds like the feast my mother would make.

She was an excellent cook and made so much from scratch. I still have her Betty Crocker Cook Book and have found some of my favorite cookies on well worn pages.

[hlthe2b]

30. Really, none. But out of tradition, I'll eat a tablespoon of jellied in can.

It isn't that I intensely dislike any form of cranberry but am just not a big fan.

[we can do it]

35. Can. Don't know why, just like it.

Like dried cranberries for trail mix.

[Coventina]

38. I make my own with fresh cranberries.

That's my favorite.

[intrepidity]

39. I'll take them any way

But canned jellied is easiest.

[FoxNewsSucks]

40. all of it

Including the canned jelly

[sakabatou]

43. We get jellied in a can.

[Shrike47]

44. Home made, by me, out of the nasty little berries themselves.

DH likes ‘em, poor crazed thing.

[CTyankee]

45. my daughter and sil make a fabulous fresh cranberry sauce, sometimes two, for a holiday spread that

is hard to beat. What a treat!

[bamagal62]

48. Cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries.

There’s a very easy microwave recipe online. Most are just fresh cranberries, orange juice, and sugar.

https://jane-athome.com/microwave-cranberry-sauce/

[yellowdogintexas]

50. I prefer the fresh cranberry relish myself

I used to make it for Thanksgiving and freeze some for Christmas

My mom loved it.

I made a batch and took it to our first Thanksgiving in Ft Worth. I was the only one who ate it.

[MissB]

51. Homemade whole with orange zest

orange juice and ginger.

[SoBlueInFL]

54. I love homemade cranberry sauce. And, (year-round) I love Nantucket r/o

cranberry cake. Lingonberry jam is also a favorite. I like it warmed and spooned over buckwheat pancakes.

Here is an excellent recipe for cranberry sauce:

https://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/cranberry-sauce-2/

[debm55]

60. My husband is from Boston, and he loves Nantucket Cranberry cake. His mom was From Finland, so when

visted she have the cake, Lindonberry jam-we ate on muffins and herring in sour cream. Thanks for reminding me of the good memories. My husband and his family were a blessing for me. Thank you for the llnk, also. I will share with Husband as he does all the Thanksgiving stuff and I do all the Christmas stuff. PS One summer we went to Plymouth and we all stood near the rock. Tacky, I know but it was interesting going to the old houses with the real short doors, I don't know if it was Plymouth or Williamsburg that had a village set up with actors playing the parts. in dress and house furnishings.

[SoBlueInFL]

62. I'm glad I posted. If for no other reason than I nudged your wonderful memories!

[debm55]

63. Thank you-yes they were good memories of Boston and Cape Cod. As my husband say the only place to

real fried clams are those eateries going down to the cape - served in paper cones

[LudwigPastorius]

56. My vote:

[debm55]

58. Mine too

[debm55]

61. Ludwig, shame on you,that is so gross but funny as hell.

[hunter]

64. I had only one grandparent who liked to celebrate holidays, but she did not like to cook.

She'd grown up in a home where the hired help did that.

My grandma couldn't afford to hire a cook herself so she celebrated the holidays with every modern convenience food, most of it canned. She'd have a local butcher deliver a turkey stuffed and ready to put in the oven, the local baker deliver the bread and deserts, and most everything else came out of a can -- the corn, the string beans, the jelly cranberry sauce... So maybe I'm partial to the jellied cranberries for the memories.

My other grandma once offered to host Thanksgiving and ended up taking us all to a Swedish Smorgasbord, a restaurant run by actual Swedish immigrants who didn't know or care what-for about Thanksgiving except that it was a profitable day to stay open. As I recall the restaurant didn't have turkey on the menu so my dad told us the Pilgrims ate fish too. That was okay with me, I'd choose fish over turkey any day.

[debm55]

65. Hunter, was that in Minnesota? I had college friends who invited me to Thanksgiving dinner and had

rigatoni and lasagna.along with the turkey I think maybe different cultures add to the basic feast with a touch of their own.

[hunter]

66. No, California.

There were some large Swedish-American communities here. They don't seem so well defined now, but maybe that's just me not getting out as much as I used to.

I live in a place that's predominantly Mexican-American, and yeah, it's not the New England Thanksgiving I was taught in grade school, or the one my Grandma was trying to emulate with her canned food. You'll see street vendors here selling hot turkey tamales in the parking lots for the holidays. My sister-in-law makes them too.

[cksmithy]

69. My Sicilian mil

always had a big side dish of spaghetti for Thanksgiving and
Christmas. When I was still doing the cooking for family holidays I continued the tradition and made spaghetti too. I no longer do the cooking or cleaning for the holidays, except to make fresh cranberries sauce. I decided to make the fresh, a few years ago and discovered it is very tasty and easy to make.

[debm55]

70. cksmithy, thank you so much for sharing that memory of yours.

[lucca18]

68. I love Trader Joe's Cranberry Orange Relish! 😍