really? I have brown sugar. Should I just cook with water and sugar?

Simple Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients:

* by volume, two parts cranberries
* by volume, one part water (or less)
* by volume, one part tightly-packed brown sugar

Method:

Rinse the berries and remove stems, but don't take too much trouble. Place them in the water, add sugar, and boil them lightly until all the berries have popped open, stirring frequently to make sure the sugar doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Cook and keep stirring until the sauce has thickened to your preferred consistency, on medium heat.

**Sauce takes about 20 minutes to prepare. It may take longer if you prefer a thicker sauce.

thanks i'll do that

I love mixing cranberry juice and champagne, and I always add a few cranberries to the bottom of the glass. Very festive t-day drink!

mmm! Any excuse for champers!

My recipe:

Cranberry Sauce
Yields: 12 servings

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 c. white sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
2/3 c. orange juice
1/3 c. water
1 (12 ounce) package fresh cranberries

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, dissolve the sugar in the orange juice.
Stir in the cranberries, and cook until they start to pop (about 10 minutes).
Remove from heat, and transfer to a bowl. Cranberry sauce will thicken as it
cools. Cool overnight.

Well yeah, I was thinking more of mouth feel as opposed to actual taste. I'm not sure if I'd like it as a jelly.

it probably has the same texture as strawberry jelly would but it just has a cranberry taste....

You know those gross little packets of 'jelly' at breakfast places? Taste/texture like that but cranberry-esque.

So far everything that you don't like is "gross" or "crap".... I haven't seen anyone calling homemade stuff names, even if they don't like it.

I grew up on the canned stuff and love it.

I have tried homemade and love that too.

i like the homemade stuff too but I prefer the canned stuff with my turkey...

ditto!

My ex said she has it so now I just need to find a siv and its ICE time....num num

I found these recipes....


Cranberry Ice

Ingredients

8 cups water
4 cups fresh cranberries
3 cups sugar
Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and cook 15 minutes or until all cranberries pop. Strain cranberry mixture through a fine sieve over a bowl, discarding solids. Cover and chill.

Pour the cranberry mixture into the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. Spoon cranberry ice into a freezer-safe container; cover and freeze 1 hour or until ready to serve.
Yield

10 cups (serving size: 1/2 cup)

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefi...ecipe_id=222565

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Cranberry Ice

INGREDIENTS

* 2 (12 ounce) packages fresh cranberries
* 2 cups white sugar
* 1 1/4 cups fresh orange juice
* 1 cup fresh lemon juice
DIRECTIONS

1. In a large pot, add cranberries and enough water to cover. Boil until cranberries begin to pop. Drain and put through a food mill placed over a large bowl.
2. While still warm add sugar to dissolve in the warm berries. The amount of sugar may vary depending on the tartness of the berries, so if you decide to add more sugar remember that the mixture will be tarter when it has been frozen.
3. After dissolving the sugar in the berries, stir in fresh squeezed orange juice and fresh squeezed lemon juice. Pour in 8 or 9 inch square pan and freeze overnight. Take out of the freezer 5-10 minutes before cutting.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cranberry-Ice/detail.aspx

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Cranberry Ice


1 pk Fresh cranberries (12 oz)
1 c Sugar
4 c Water
1/2 c Raspberry wine or liqueur
Sugared Cranberries
Mint leaves

Rinse cranberries, removing any soft bruised berries. Drain.

Combine cranberries, sugar and water in large saucepan. Bring to
boil. Boil 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and
cool to room temperature. Pour through fine mesh strainer pressing to
extract as much juice as possible from berries. Stir in wine.

Freeze mixture in ice cream maker according to manufaturer's
instructions. Spoon ice into chilled loaf dish. Cover and freeze
until serving time.

To serve spoon into serving glass or bowl. Garnish with mint leaves.

http://www.recipesource.com/desserts/froze...berry-ice1.html

I put other. I can't stand cranberries with turkey and gravy. YUCK!!!!!!!!!
But if I HAD to eat them, it would NEVER be canned. You shouldn't be able to "slice" cranberry sauce.
I do like fresh cranberry muffins or scones - NO CRAISINS though.

I'll drink some cranberry juice on occassion, but have zero interest in cranberry sauce. As others have said, why do you "slice" sauce? If I want sauce, then apple will do just fine.

well, the stuff in the can isn't sauce.... it is called Cranberry Jelly.....

Not here. The can (Ocean Spray) even says "Jellied Cranberry Sauce". Here in Indiana, nothing is called jelly unless it comes in a jar and is usually spread on toast.

well, it still says jellied

You can make homemade cranberry sauce?



As long as it's whole berries, I don't care!

Homemade cranberry sauce is easy. Basically just cooking cranberries with sugar. The way my mom cooks it, you can totally tell that it is WHOLE BERRIES. (But I'm still not eating it on my turkey )

One bag of Cranberries
One Cup of Sugar
One Cup of Water

Boil then simmer until all berries have "popped" and mixture is kinda thick. Then let cool and stick in the fridge. That's it.

Some people add orange juice and/or zest, but that's just wrong.... lol

I made my own cranberry sauce this year and I was very surprised to find that when it sat in the fridge overnight it came out exactly the same consistency and flavour as the stuff from a can! So don't feel guilty about eating the canned stuff...

I love either homemade sauce or whole berry sauce out of the can. I can't say I am a fan of sliced sauce.