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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?
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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.
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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 youre 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 cant 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. Thats all you do. Its 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.
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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.
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We just take the can of cranberry sauce (chilled) and dump it in a bowl. No slicing necessary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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I'm anti-gravy. Everyone in my family is. We think that gravy is "something that other people eat."
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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.
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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.
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