I bought some for today's festivities...but what do I do with it? It's just a can of jellied cranberry sauce and I have no idea how to serve it. Do I serve it cold? Do I serve it warm?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Chill it. Then slice it thinly and serve it in a bowl.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Are you sure?
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
That's the way I've seen it served. Not very glamous, huh?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If you want glamorous, make the bowl crystal.
There are other things one can do with canned cranberry sauce. But they all involve multiple ingredients.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Give it to me.
-pH
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
This may be a little late, but here's how to make cranberry sauce.
Adam Carolla's Cranberry Sauce:
"Step One: Get yourself a sack of cranberries. If you’re going to have eight or ten people over, get two sacks. Just buy them — they last for over two months.
Step Two: Take a cup of water per sack, and a cup of sugar as well. Adam prefers to go lighter in the sugar, though, because you can’t take sugar out. Start with a half-cup of sugar, and add more to taste.
Step Three: Boil the sugar and the water in a sauce pan, and once it comes to a boil, pour in the cranberries. Then put a lid on it, and let it simmer. That’s all you do. It’s as easy as cooking a can of soup."
You wanna be fancy? Grate in some lemon or orange rind to give it some extra tang.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Given that she already had the can, I'd agree that it's a bit late.
However, I will be following a very similar recipe later.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Sasha made the Cranberries this year so it has to be easy.
My favorite cranberry story:
About 10 years ago we were at my in-laws for Thanksgiving. Everybody was busy making something, so I decided to make the Cranberries. For the previous 4 years we always bought a can of cranberries, which was always forgotten about and never brought to the table.
That year I cooked real cranberries, and they were a hit. As we were filling our faces everyone kept asking me for the recipe. Finally I told everyone that I would be happy to give them the recipe in the exact way my mother passed it down to me.
The crowd got quiet. My sister-in-law told me to wait as she ran for a pen and paper. Everyone was on the edge of their seats as I passed out this family secret.
"First," I said, "Take a bag of cranberries."
"Yeah, yeah?" they responded eagerly.
"Then gently turn it over."
"Yeah, yeah!"
"Then, to quote my sweet mother, you read the directions, stupid."
You know there are far more moving stories about how people get thrown out of family gatherings.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Hey, Dan! My mother's recipe is almost the same as your mother's!
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
We just take the can of cranberry sauce (chilled) and dump it in a bowl. No slicing necessary.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*haughty sniff*
Heathens.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I'm with ya, rivka.
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
I got the cranbery sauce out of the can, without using any utensils! I was very proud of myself, as I usually mangle the thing with a spatula.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*applauds*
There is nothing quite like the splorp jellied cranberry sauce makes when escaping from the can.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Eat it! Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
One year my former mother in law gave me a cranberry serving dish for a Christmas gift. It was a rectangular crystal plate with a silver plated serving flat "spoon" that was about as a can of cranberry sauce. I never EVER used it for anything, as when I did serve cranberry sauce (which was seldom) I made it fresh like Dan's mother and Rivka (and my mother too).
I must have moved that stupid dish and server half a dozen times before I finally tossed it though.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Cranberry sauce from the can is an abomination before the Tante. She turns up her patrician nose at such a lowly food. The Tante makes cranberry sauce from scratch and it is NOT sweet.
The Tante will now conclude referring to herself in the third person.
Thank you for your forbearance.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I brought the cranberry sauce this year. And the Martinelli's. I got the kind in a can, jellied and whole berry. Whole berry gets mushed into a bowl, with a spoon for serving. Jellied gets thinly sliced and fanned out on a plate, with a fork for serving. My sister used to make cranberry relish from scratch, but most of us didn't eat it, so she stopped...
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I eat jellied cranberry sauce out of the can. It's better than jell-o.
-pH
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
True story!
As for non-sweet cranberry sauce, THAT would be an abomination.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Rivka, have you tasted my wonderful cranberry sauce, a traditional family recipe handed down to me from my dear mother? No?
Then you know not of what you speak.
It is heaven.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My grandma makes jell-o with cranberry sauce IN it.
It's my favorite Thanksgiving food, actually.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Esther, I have had other insufficiently sweetened cranberry sauces. *shudder*
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Other, lesser sauces. Mine is nectar and ambrosia.
And I don't mean that nasty salad with the canned oranges and marshmallows, either.
That's it -- now you MUST come by for cranberries. Are you doing anything for Shabbos? I'm fixing a batch.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
This is like all those people who are convinced that even though I hate potato kugel, I'll change my mind once I taste theirs, right?
For Shabbos, I'm cooking a turkey. I also don't plan to walk outside t'chum Shabbos.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I'm also making a turkey, and stuffing, and yams, and butternut squash kugel, chocolate pecan pie, and CRANBERRIES!
I'm also not a big fan of the potato kugel. Well, maybe if you mix the batter and instead of baking it, pour it directly on top of the bubbling cholent, like a crust. That's OK.
I understand about you not making it by. It IS quite a long walk.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
We're having pumpkin kugel. Stuffing is a given, with turkey! (And my minhag is to actually cook the stuffing inside the bird, although I do sometimes make use of an unstuffer.)
Turnovers and the most marvelous sorbet are planned for dessert.
Posted by Silent E (Member # 8840) on :
My wife makes cranberry bread instead of sauce. It's always a favorite.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Sharon does make the most marvelous sorbet. You know what would be perfect? Cranberry flavor.
Pumpkin kugel, huh? Sounds right. I think I'll emulate.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Cranberry bread is yummy. But it doesn't work so well for pouring over pieces of turkey.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Sharon does make the most marvelous sorbet. You know what would be perfect? Cranberry flavor.
Oh, that would be good! mmm!
quote:Pumpkin kugel, huh? Sounds right. I think I'll emulate.
Libby's helping. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I love the canned cranberry sauce. I usually have a container with it in the fridge so I can use it on chicken I eat during the week.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
Cranberry relish was my job at thanksgiving from the time I was 3 until my grandmother died.
Take two bags of cranberries, two oranges cut into small slices, run it all through a meat grinder, add sugar, put in container for transporting. EASY! And delicious...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Canned cranberry sauce even comes with built-in guidelines for the cutting. Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I've never (voluntarily) had canned. Ew!
The last Christmas I was in Canada, though, I made a cranberry chutney that was loved and adored and inhaled by all.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the recipe. Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
What's up with the "pouring cranberry sauce over turkey instead of gravy" business?
Now, I don't mind if my food touches. So, if some cranberry happens to get on my turkey, I'm not complaining. But I'm not deliberately pouring berries all over my beautiful bird. No thank you.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Javert: What's up with the "pouring cranberry sauce over turkey instead of gravy" business?
Instead? Whaddaya mean, instead?
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by Javert: What's up with the "pouring cranberry sauce over turkey instead of gravy" business?
Instead? Whaddaya mean, instead?
You add cranberry sauce AND gravy...eeeewwwwww!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*pat pat*
It's an acquired taste. I'm sure you'll grow into it.
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Not if I can help it, but thanks. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I'm anti-gravy. Everyone in my family is. We think that gravy is "something that other people eat."
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
Well, your family is just WEIRD. No gravy, and unsweetened cranberry sauce?
Evilness.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Hey. I take offense!
Our Thanksgiving feast is pure joy, delectable, wonderful, perfect, scrumptious.
AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!! Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
They're not evil, Paul!
Just a bit confused.
After I finish the JM24 campaign, I'll have to work out a gravy-and-sauce campaign.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You can run, but you can't hide.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I don't need to hide. I'm an anti-gravite and I'm proud, baby!
Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
I don't like cranberries OR gravy, so what does that make me? Come to think of it, I'm not a fan of the turkey either.
I'm the anti-thanksgiving-food freak or something, all I ate yesterday was some yummy broccili rice casserole, and of course, Pecan Pie (pumkin is also just plain awful).
My son, however, liked this cranberry salad my aunt made with what looked like mayonaise, but I'm hoping was whipped cream. She wasn't there, so I couldn't ask.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Ok, so the festivities went good, and people seemed to like the cranberry sauce (although at first they didn't really know what it was. Oh, we little mexicans.) I always wondered why we never had cranberry sauce at our Thanksgiving table so I had decided to bring a can. I actually had tried it on a turkey sandwich once and had found the taste quite appealing.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
I've never had cranberry sauce - it's never been served at a Thanksgiving I've attended. Someone please explain to me exactly how you're supposed to eat it?
Is it actually a sauce that's supposed to go ON something? Or is it something you're supposed to just cut up and eat? (The canned stuff in the bowl always looks so, SO monumentally gross!)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Cranberry sauce can be served a variety of ways. My favorite kind is a very saucy whole-berry, which I like to put on the turkey (or it's good with chicken too). Less liquid whole-berry sauces (or the jellied ones, which in theory can be homemade, but I don't know anyone who does that) can be eaten separately or with the bird.
As has been evidenced, people tend to have strong opinions on this.
DDDaysh, why would whipped cream be preferable to mayo?
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Cranberry sauce can be served a variety of ways. My favorite kind is a very saucy whole-berry, which I like to put on the turkey (or it's good with chicken too). Less liquid whole-berry sauces (or the jellied ones, which in theory can be homemade, but I don't know anyone who does that) can be eaten separately or with the bird.
As has been evidenced, people tend to have strong opinions on this.
DDDaysh, why would whipped cream be preferable to mayo?
Ohhh, it's a sauce for the TURKEY? That makes a lot more sense. Thanks! ^_^
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I'm part of a Cuban/Colombian family. What's this "turkey" everyone keeps talking about? Is that American slang for the roasted pig or for the ditch we cook it in?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My mom made ham as well as turkey last night, because she and several others don't like turkey.
(I LOVE turkey.)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Y'know, I never gave my recipe for cranberries. As I mentioned, it's similar to the on-the-bag recipe. However, I substitute orange juice for half the water, decrease the sugar slightly, and add ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Sometimes we just have it like that, but many times (including today), I then pour it over sliced apples, top with a little bit of streusel, and bake.
(Works pretty well with the canned stuff, too.)
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
(Tante, I'm an anti-gravite, too.)
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Y'know, I never gave my recipe for cranberries. As I mentioned, it's similar to the on-the-bag recipe. However, I substitute orange juice for half the water, decrease the sugar slightly, and add ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Sometimes we just have it like that, but many times (including today), I then pour it over sliced apples, top with a little bit of streusel, and bake.
(Works pretty well with the canned stuff, too.)
Oh, oh dear.
That sounds delicious. Posted by Amilia (Member # 8912) on :
quote:I don't like cranberries OR gravy, so what does that make me? Come to think of it, I'm not a fan of the turkey either.
I'm the anti-thanksgiving-food freak or something
Ditto. But I eat it all anyway because it is Thanksgiving and that is what you do on Thanksgiving.
I am reminded of the My Hero Christmas special. It is George's first Christmas on Earth (he is a superhero from the planet Ultron), and his girlfriend Janet is explaining the traditions to him. As she puts the turkey in the oven, the conversation goes something like this:
George: Whoa, big chicken! Is it genetically modified or something?
Janet: No, this is a turkey. It tastes a little like chicken, except drier and not as much flavor.
G: So why are we eating it?
J: Because it is Christmas dinner and the biggest meal of the year. We have to have turkey. It wouldn't be special if we just had chicken again.
G: So for the biggest meal of the year, we have something that is not as good as what we have on every other day.
J: Yeah.
G: Well, can we have chicken tomorrow?
J: No. You see, the thing about turkey is that it is so big that we are going to be eating it for the next fortnight.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Huh. My turkey was never dry and always had as much flavor as chicken, just different flavor. Is it Canadian turkeys or is it that I'm just that superior a cook? Posted by Amilia (Member # 8912) on :
You're probably just that superior of a cook. :-)
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Good answer.
Now, where should I send that cheque? Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
:-) I can't eat turkey, it actually does something very funky to my tongue where it feels like it's pulling all my tastebuds together... hard to explain, but kinda think of the idea of putting aftershave on your tongue... though not quite as painful as home alone.
And as for why whipped cream would be better than mayo... well.. for one thing I just think mayo is gross to begin with... for second, I actually HAVE tasted cranberry sauce before, and while the thought of eating them even with whipped cream is not appetizing, the thought of having them in mayonaise is stomach churning.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I make awesome turkey that is never, ever dry. quid and I will cook turkey for you, and you will love turkey. Unless it pulls all your tastebuds together-- yikes!
Posted by Mankind (Member # 2672) on :
I tried this yesteday and throught it was easy and good. Cranberry purists thought it was a little too orangey, though.
Have a nice day.
[ November 25, 2006, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Mankind ]
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Yup! I volunteer to cook turkey. But you'll have to come here and supply the turkey. Or fly me there and supply the turkey. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
We eat cranberry sauce plain in little fruit bowls. The idea of combining the cranberry flavors and the turkey flavors sounds sort of questionable to me.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Y'know, I never gave my recipe for cranberries. As I mentioned, it's similar to the on-the-bag recipe. However, I substitute orange juice for half the water, decrease the sugar slightly, and add ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Sometimes we just have it like that, but many times (including today), I then pour it over sliced apples, top with a little bit of streusel, and bake.
(Works pretty well with the canned stuff, too.)
Oh, oh dear.
That sounds delicious.
It was. Actually I should say is -- there's a little bit left.
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