Dear friends, I have already confessed that despite my love for Thanksgiving menu planning, I am far too
spontaneous indecisive and easily distracted to have all of the dishes on our Thanksgiving menu trialed, tested, perfected, and posted weeks or even days prior to the holiday. With the exception of my grandmother's pecan pie and my mother's famous vegetarian "turkey," the rest of the menu always consists of brand new dishes whipped up amidst a flurry of cooking, activity, and excitement the day before and the very day of the holiday. However, there is one dish I absolutely can recommend you add to your Thanksgiving menu far in advance: this homemade cranberry sauce. A
four berry sauce, no less. The minute fresh cranberries appear in stores I start fixing vast batches of cranberry sauce, and stockpiling fresh cranberries to last the rest of the year (they freeze brilliantly). For if there is one dish that should always be made completely from scratch on Thanksgiving, it is the cranberry sauce. I know we were all raised on the congealed, perfectly cylindrical canned cranberry sauce, but even if you aren't as
insane excited about cooking everything from scratch as we are, you will still love this easy, infinitely adaptable, and positively delicious homemade cranberry sauce.
Four-Berry Sauce
1 (12oz) package fresh cranberries
1 cup water
1/2 cup raw turbinado sugar
2 cups frozen mixed berries (raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp allspice
~ Stir together all the ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15 minutes - until the cranberries have burst and the mixture has thickened somewhat (it will thicken further as it cools). Serve warm or chilled!
I just wish it was easier to find fresh cranberries here - but all we can find is sauce in jars (and dried ones) so I just take what I can get when I need a cranberry sauce - of course if I could find fresh cranberries I would love to make a sauce like yours. Hope you have a great thanksgiving!
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