The recipe I use is easy and very basic. Some cranberry sauce recipes add items like cinnamon and grated orange rind but we like ours simple because that is the way we have always had it and that is the way it is "supposed" to taste for us. Personally, I like it because it tastes good and because it is so easy to put together.
It is, of course, a perfectly acceptable choice to buy a can of cranberry sauce but making it yourself really is very simple and afterwards you can feel good about having done so rather than having opened a can.
The ingredients are simple. All you need is:
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of water
1.5 cups or 12 ounces of fresh or frozen cranberries
Put these three ingredients in a pot and boil gently for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. If at this point your sauce seems very runny, you can choose to boil it for a couple of minutes longer. Doing so won't hurt the end product and will just make your sauce a bit thicker.
The cranberries release pectin, which helps the sauce to gel so you do not have to add anything else as a thickener.
This morning I used 2 cups of frozen cranberries and boiled them for five minutes longer.
I choose to serve mine in a pretty little glass bowl. It is nice that the bowl is clear, which allows the beautiful red color of the cranberry sauce to be a decorative element on our table.
If you are feeding only one or two people, it is an easy enough matter to freeze half of the cranberry sauce for next time.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Brenda
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