Whole Cranberry Sauce Recipe
Making whole cranberry sauce cannot be any easier than this. It is best served warm. Encourage guests to spread over their meat and dressing – European style.
Leftover cranberry sauce to make a wonderful topping for ice cream and yogurt.
Use instead of jam on your morning toast and peanut butter.
Cranberry sauce is a popular European topping for wild game.
- 12 oz can frozen Apple Juice concentrate
- 12 oz pkg. Cranberries (about 3 measuring cups)
- 2 Tbs Sugar (white or brown)
- 2 Tbs Lemon Juice
- Optionals include: 2 Tbs Rum or Cognac or ¼ C. Red Wine; Finely chopped citrus peel; Small tart chopped apple or ¼ C. raisons; 1 Tbs horseradish (if to be used only as a meat sauce)
- Bring Concentrated Apple Juice to a boil while rinsing cranberries through a sieve.
- Add the rinsed and drained cranberries, sugar, lemon juice, and rum (or other optionals). Bring back to simmer, lower heat and cover.
- Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- If sauce is too thin, simmer additional five minutes without cover, stirring occasionally.
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