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Eves

Posted 11.40AM
Mon 12 Jan 2004

Anyone got any good ideas of what to do with cranberries? My husband bought some for Christmas, but I didn't make any cranberry sauce.

 
Mary from Australia

Posted 12.17PM
Mon 12 Jan 2004

You could make cranberry jelly and keep it for next year. Jelly is very time consuming to make but when you produce a few pots of crystal clear, gleaming red jelly, it is SO satisfying!

 
BeccaNurse

Posted 10.51PM
Mon 12 Jan 2004

great results using MSN search engine typing "recipes using cranberries." first 4 were good links. try fabulousfoods.com, bestbritishfoods.com,little cranberry cookbook.com. i have a few tried and true great recipes, but don't know what you are looking for. the recipe at thanksgiving on GFL is awsome, it's a traditional serve-with-turkey in my family dish. hope this helps!

 
blondie02

Posted 11.17PM
Mon 12 Jan 2004

I would freeze them for now untill you decide what to do with them. Fruit juices are always popular , pavalovas ect, I take cranberries , other soft fruits straight from my freezer and make instant drinks. Cranberries and pears go well together. Now I always have a supply at hand.

 
Eves

Posted 11.00AM
Tue 13 Jan 2004

Thanks everyone. Will have a look as I don't really know what I want.

 
Martino

Posted 3.13PM
Tue 13 Jan 2004

OK to add to the comments in a broader wider scope:

First bear in mind this fruit has a tart taste so compliments several things. First because it is not Christmas does not mean you cannot have it as a sauce. Try it with orange. Also as it is tart it works well with fat so try apple and Cranberry with pork.

So think combos. Another example would be as a compliment like white stilton as white stilton is pretty mild and the tartness will draw out the flavour.

Then we could move on to thinking it is a "fruit of the forest" which of course it is not but could be used to replace soft fruits in say a baked alaska.

Think fusion for example the saltiness of Soy sauce goes well with cranberries and makes an excelent gravy.

SO as cranberries are a ssimple as freezing and defrosting on demand serving hot (heat them in some liquid of the kind mentioned above and wait for them to pop) or cold thawed use them up or as you want but dont forget they are there.

 
 
 

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