Cranberry, Apple, Pear Sauce
By: KC Quaretti-Lee
Published: Friday, November 12, 2010 - 7:21am

Ingredients




2 packages Fresh cranberries
2 Apples
2 Pears
1 Lemon
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Orange Juice

Preparation

1 Rinse and pick over the cranberries to make sure you don’t have any bad ones. 2 Peel, core and chop the apples and pears. 3 Finely grate the lemon peel and then juice the lemon. 4 Place all the ingredients in a large enamel pot and cook over low/medium heat for about 45 minutes stirring every few minutes.  The berries will pop and the sauce will thicken slightly. 5 Remove from the heat and chill.  The sauce will be very thick when chilled. 6 Thanks it, that’s all you have to do to make a super delicious homemade cranberry sauce!

About


The great cranberry debate; canned or homemade? Well I grew up with my grandmothers, aunts and my mother opening a can of cranberry sauce. It always came out of the can with the ridges intact and went to the table exactly that way. Now I will admit as a kid, it was one of the few things I liked at Thanksgiving; the sweet yet tangy flavor and the smooth consistency was a delight to the senses! When I started cooking myself one of the first holiday meals I tackles was Thanksgiving and the cranberry sauce was my highest priority to investigate and make my own. Over the years I have developed this easy cranberry sauce that is a continual crowd pleaser and has made its way into a specialty dessert of mine; Lemon cranberry Cake.