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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 17, 2020 23:27:30 GMT
none here yet!
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 17, 2020 23:29:43 GMT
How Did Cranberry Sauce Become a Staple Thanksgiving Food?www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2020/11/16/cranberry-sauce/I hope I donβt offend anyone, but I really donβt like cranberry sauce. Why do we have to have it on Thanksgiving? Did the Pilgrims eat it when they got here? And am I a bad New Englander for hating it? βW.P., Newton Answer: Okay, W.P., no offense taken, so I hope you donβt mind the question I have: What is wrong with you?β Cranberry sauce is a crucial component of the Thanksgiving table, where its tart, bright acidity cuts through all of the heavy turkey and gravy and stuffing and mashed potatoes. The zippy little fruitβour official state berry, mind youβis also a crucial component of the Massachusetts economy: Each year, the Bay Stateβs own cran-cooperative, Ocean Spray, produces some 70 million cans of cranberry sauce alone. That being said, I hardly think youβre a bad New Englander for not eating the stuff, as itβs likely the Pilgrims didnβt eat it either when they arrived here on the Mayflower 400 years ago. Going by two eyewitness documents from the time, we can only say for certain that the First Thanksgiving meal in 1621 consisted of waterfowl (probably goose or duck), wild turkey, venison, and corn in some formβeverything else is educated conjecture. Indeed, the Wampanoags used the areaβs native cranberries for food and dyeing clothes, and many academics suggest that they taught the settlers to make a healthy energy staple called pemmican out of cranberries pounded together with dried meat and fat. But as for your reviled relish, the Smithsonian and Plimoth Plantation agree that the first written reference by an English settler to boiling the berries with sugar to make βa sauce to eat withβ¦meatβ wasnβt penned until 50 years after the First Turkey (or Waterfowl) Dayβand it took General Ulysses S. Grant famously serving it to his Union soldiers during the Civil War to popularize it. As for the notorious jellied version, you can thank farmer Marcus Urann of Hanson, who first came up with the idea of canning his berries in 1912. But even if youβre not a fan of the cranberry sauce that slithers out of a can with a glurg and lands with a thunk on the platter, you might enjoy something like my motherβs chilled cranberry-grape salad, which, while it does include fresh cranberries cooked with sugar and gelatin, also features plenty of other textures and flavors in the form of chopped celery, apples, and walnuts. I hope you try making it, and if you do, I have only one caveat: Itβs not really a New England recipe, as my momβs from Iowa.
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Post by divtal on Nov 18, 2020 1:36:43 GMT
As far as availability goes, the usual bags of cranberries have been available in grocery stores, here, for weeks.
While I don't really crave cranberry sauce, I love to make it. It could not possibly be easier, and the aroma that permeates the house is glorious. It's also very inexpensive.
-- 1 bag of cranberries
-- 1 C. water
-- 1 C. sugar
-- A pinch of salt
-- Wash the berries, and put all ingredients in a medium sauce pan.
-- Turn the burner heat to medium.
-- Cook, until the mixture thickens. The pectin in the berries, is the thickener.
And, that's only the basic recipe. Add whatever spices, fruits or other flavorings, appeal to you.
It's great!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Nov 18, 2020 10:50:29 GMT
Publix has them in their produce department.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 18, 2020 16:08:26 GMT
Going out to look for some today...π€
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 18, 2020 19:35:58 GMT
Most definitely. Be something seriously wrong if WI didn't have cranberries out.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Nov 18, 2020 20:18:54 GMT
No, but i didn't go looking. I could do without cranberries.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2020 20:25:38 GMT
If you make blueberry muffins and have some cranberries in the freezer (doesn't everyone?) ... throw a handfull in the batter .... they make a nice little burst of sourness.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 18, 2020 21:56:35 GMT
just 3 bags at my grocery today. all weakly looking...
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Post by sunshine on Nov 19, 2020 18:10:52 GMT
Saw them yesterday on sale for $1.99 a bag.
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Post by enigma72 on Nov 19, 2020 18:22:02 GMT
nutsberryfarm πlots of fresh cranberry bags. I am the only one who eats cranberries here so I just bought one can of whole berry cranberries. I hope I don't get any hate mail. lol How are you feeling? do you have an update? Did Area 51's Chicken noodle soup help?
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 19, 2020 18:23:35 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 19, 2020 18:35:55 GMT
nutsberryfarm π lots of fresh cranberry bags. I am the only one who eats cranberries here so I just bought one can of whole berry cranberries. I hope I don't get any hate mail. lol How are you feeling? do you have an update? Did Area 51's Chicken noodle soup help? feeling better...thanks! chicken noodle soup was magic!
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 19, 2020 18:36:11 GMT
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Post by novastar6 on Nov 21, 2020 1:41:32 GMT
Yeah, and I don't eat them.
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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on Nov 21, 2020 9:06:54 GMT
I haven't noticed. Just today my mom brought home a can of ocean spray cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving but its the good kind with whole berries. Mmmm!
One of the worst stomachaches I ever had (and I've had a lot, ahurk!) was from eating a bunch, much more than I realized, of dried cranberries aka craisins. They were in a big bag and I I didn't eat even half the bag, but I ate them straight from it. So delicious, cold and tart sweet!
I had a constant concentrated tight pain/pressure right behind my bellybutton for three and a half days.
I still love'em though.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 21, 2020 19:10:01 GMT
still no luck around these parts!
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Post by NJtoTX on Nov 21, 2020 19:24:54 GMT
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Post by divtal on Nov 21, 2020 20:40:54 GMT
We're in the presence of a STAR (and his Sister Star) !! The YouTube video, below, is from last month, and shows everything you could ever want to know about cranberry farming. The gentleman who hosts it lives in British Columbia. His weekly presentations focused on general travel ... often by train ... from around the world. However, 2020/Covid/Travel Bans, etc., put a halt to his usual adventures. He's adapted by focusing on adventures in British Columbia/Western Canada. It's a departure, but he's high-energy, and he makes it all interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NMzQns3xw
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