Last week in cooking class, we made homemade Cranberry Sauce. Tangy, sweet, delicious, and beautiful cranberry sauce. It looked like a bowl of beautiful, shiny jewelry and tasted so yummy, the kids begged to take home the leftovers. Would you like to make some?
You can, it’s really easy.
Try this:
Step 1:
Add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water to a small pot. Turn heat to medium high and bring water/sugar mixture to a boil. Then add 1, 12-ounce bag of fresh cranberries.
Cover pot with a lid and return to a boil.
Next, reduce heat to low and allow cranberry sauce to simmer for about 10 minutes or until the berries have popped. You will hear them pop and you will see little cracks.
Here is a picture of my students listening and watching for their cranberry sauce to pop (My favorite part of this picture is the glare from the window on the girl’s glasses and the boy “listening” for the popping~this was the quietest moment all semester!)
Next add about 1 teaspoon of lemon zest
(Before)
(After)
Finally, remove from heat, pour into a serving dish and put into refrigerator to cool.
Tip: if you want to serve this right away, place serving dish in a bowl of ice water and stir to help cool more quickly.
Enjoy this with turkey for Thanksgiving or on top of vanilla ice cream for an after school treat.
The recipe is below…If you make this, please let us know how it goes.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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