# How do you like your cranberry sauce? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892 "2007-11-18T03:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/61 "2007-11-19T06:31:38Z")
I do not like cranberry sauce. Every time you eat cranberry sauce, Jesus farts on a kitten. love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/62 "2007-11-19T06:48:59Z")
I like my cranberry sauce wrapped in a napkin, hidden under the table. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/63 "2007-11-19T07:52:20Z")
And to think I thought I was the only one who prefers the canned stuff to homemade! Thatā€™s not to say homemade is _bad_ - Iā€™ve had some that were quite tasty - but each bonus ingredient (nuts, other fruits) that many feel compelled to add causes a deduction of a few points on my scoresheet. Solid cranberry residue floating around in the gel detracts from the experience, IMO. Freshly-picked from the cranberry sauce can tree, at Ocean Spray Farms - itā€™s how the stuff is meant to be, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/64 "2007-11-19T10:00:14Z")
I like the canned stuff traditionally, itā€™s a perfect schmear to a piece of turkey, and a foil to the sage of stuffing. I have had some other versions of homemade cranberry sauce that I enjoyed, I think they involved walnuts and orange peel. Pretty good, but I like the canned stuff too. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/65 "2007-11-19T13:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=brad\_d] Freshly-picked from the cranberry sauce can tree, at Ocean Spray Farms [/QUOTE] [Nitpick]Cranberry sauce can bog[/Nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/66 "2007-11-19T13:53:48Z")
> [@](#): > > You know, little makes my heart sink more than going to a relativesā€™ house for Thanksgiving only to find out theyā€™ve made ā€œhomemadeā€ cranberry sauce. Itā€™s typically just cranberries in some gooey sauce. Blech. You havenā€™t had ours. ā€œcranberries in a gooey sauceā€?? Never heard of such a thing, or saw it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/67 "2007-11-19T13:55:26Z")
I prefer mine in the can, un-opened, left on the grocery store shelfā€¦ šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/68 "2007-11-19T14:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=PharmBoy] I prefer mine in the can, un-opened, left on the grocery store shelfā€¦ šŸ™‚ [/QUOTE] Preach it, brotha! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/69 "2007-11-19T14:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Dirx] Our family always has both kinds: the canned jelly and the homemade sauce. My brother refuses to touch the latter; I forget who in my family canā€™t stand the former. As I always have two helpings of just about everything available, I end up using both. Sauce in Round One, and then the jelly in Round Two. I must admit, I prefer the jelly, but both are good. [/QUOTE] Yup. Mom or Grandma (& I as the family shrank) would sometimes use a ā€œnewā€ recipe for cranberry sauce. But there was always a can, too. Tradition! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/70 "2007-11-19T15:48:52Z")
I have a soulution to the dilemma- use the canned stuff and reprocess it, but kick it up a notch. Canā€™t everybody just get along? Donā€™t know how it will taste, I just made it up on the fly. **Traditional- Non-Traditional Cranberry Sauce** 2 cans of canned traditional cranberry sauce 1 small bag of fresh cranberries 1 small bag of craisins 1 small jar of Orange Marmelade 1/2 cup of chopped toasted almonds 1 cup of water 1/2 cup of sugar Throw everything together in a saucepan, bring everything to a boil, making sure the canned cranberry sauce melts completely and the fresh cranberries start to burst and get soft after a good simmer. Pour in a mold and refrigerate. You could repurpose the cranberry sauce cans as molds as well, but there will be quite a bit left over (Throw the remaining in a bowl). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/71 "2007-11-19T15:58:00Z")
Thatā€™sā€¦ 12 oz. of fresh cranberries 6 oz. of craisins and around 6 oz. of orange marmelade ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/72 "2007-11-19T16:16:22Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Canā€™t everybody just get along? [/QUOTE] You will have my whole berries when you pry them from my cold, dead hand. Er, teeth. Fork. Can I get back to you on this? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/73 "2007-11-19T16:36:24Z")
Iā€™m thinking the sugar and water levels might need tweaking. Work in progress, entirely untested. Iā€™ve actually been in a cranberry bog. Interesting place, the bog. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/74 "2007-11-19T18:30:52Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Iā€™ve actually been in a cranberry bog. Interesting place, the bog. [/QUOTE] [hijack]Any carnivorous plants in that bog, devils? Sarracenia, drosera? šŸ™‚ [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/75 "2007-11-19T18:41:18Z")
I actually had the jellied, canned, sliced stuff for the first time last week at my office Thanksgiving potluck. I didnā€™t know what it was, I thought maybe it was beets. Eh, it was crandberry-ish. My family always has home made cranberry sauce. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/76 "2007-11-19T19:58:59Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] [hijack]Any carnivorous plants in that bog, devils? Sarracenia, drosera? šŸ™‚ [/hijack] [/QUOTE] Not that I saw, there might have been though. It was a commercially farmed bog at a tour of the Ocean Spray Headquarters in Lakeville, Massachussetts. I believe this is actually the bog I saw: [Bog Cam](http://www.oceanspray.com/about/bogcam.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/77 "2007-11-19T20:09:27Z")
Jellied, from a can so I can slice it into shapes. When my Pop was ā€œcookingā€ for just himself, bro and me, he would get half the can and bro and I would each get a quarter can. Pop is very precise. Then I would cut my ā€œpieā€ into pie-piece wedges to eat it. Happy. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/78 "2007-11-19T20:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] I make kickbutt homemade cranberry relish. I.e., the chunky sauce. For years I made one with lots of sugar and port, and people wanted to spread it on bread like jam after dinner. This year Iā€™m making a homemade, no chunks smooth jelled version in a mold - with [grappa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa) in it. (I claim that ā€œgrappaā€ is Italian for ā€œrocket fuel.ā€) Iā€™m also making a chunky apricot-cranberry sauce for the people who canā€™t drink alcohol or donā€™t want that much of a kick from their cranberry sauce. [/QUOTE] Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter šŸ™‚ In short, recipes please? Re the OP: I was raised on Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce. In fact I now own the cut glass dish my mother used to serve it in. Sliced, of course. I always viewed the can lines as cutting guides šŸ˜‰ Hey, the stuff is not high culinary art but itā€™s not bad! We donā€™t usually get that however. We discovered cranberry-orange relish. A bag of fresh cranberries, an orange or two (I forget the proportions), and some sugar. 5 minutes in the food processor, 24+ hours in the fridge to mellow, and youā€™ve got enough vitamin C to prevent the common cold in the entire Western Hemisphere! One year my in-laws were in town for turkey day. My FIL looked stricken when he realized we hadnā€™t planned on buying the jellied stuff. So that got added to the grocery list. And guests brought some nice homemade cooked sauce that involved spices and was quite tasty. So that year we had three types of the stuff. Oh, plus the hot cranberry-cider punch. Mmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/79 "2007-11-19T22:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa] We donā€™t usually get that however. We discovered cranberry-orange relish. A bag of fresh cranberries, an orange or two (I forget the proportions), and some sugar. 5 minutes in the food processor, 24+ hours in the fridge to mellow, and youā€™ve got enough vitamin C to prevent the common cold in the entire Western Hemisphere!. [/QUOTE] Mmm. My entire family is in the cranberry relish camp, with vaguely that recipe (my Dadā€™s contribution to the food prep). He makes a giant tub of the stuff, as several of us eat as much of that as we do of the turkey; the jellied can oā€™ cranberry jello only makes an appearance as a special request for non-family guests. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892/80 "2007-11-20T01:40:54Z")
You know what, Iā€™m a hopeless corporate whore. Ocean spray is good people: Use Grapefruit Marmelade or Preserves instead of the Orange Marmelade in My Traditional-Non-Traditonal Cranberrysauce. Pectin is the key. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-cranberry-sauce/426892.md?page=5)