Sauces/Gravy Cranberry Sauce

418. cranberry sauce

(from The Practical Housekeeper: A Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, edited by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, 1857)

Ingredients:

1 quart cranberries​

water to cover​

1 lb. brown sugar​

Instructions:

This sauce is very simply made. A quart of cranberries is washed and stewed with sufficient water to cover them; when they burst mix with them a pound of brown sugar, and stir them well. Before you remove them from the fire, all the berries should have burst. When cold they will be jellied, and if thrown into a form while warm, will turn out whole.​

Last Friday, I posted the Cranberry Sauce recipe from "The Practical Housekeeper". Today I made it and I must say how delicious it is! Just for fun, I made it in the shape of a Crawfish!

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

I'm still wondering why it isn't "can" shaped.

HA!!.....Good observation!

 

[Bigjeep]

That's a recipe that hasn't changed in 200 years as it's on the back of the ocean spray package! Love when the cranberries pop!

 

[111thNYSV]

hmm a pound of brown sugar? I think you sound cover anything in a pound of brown sugar and it would be good.

 

[donna]

Glad to see this recipe again. It won't be long until Thanksgiving. Have to think about foods to serve.

First we get thru Halloween.

 

[captaindrew]

I like the real cranberry sauce, you know the round stuff with rings around it!

*edited for copyright photo

 

[donna]

I love all kinds of cranberry jelly .