I like the can kind best, when it plops out of the can. then u cut it with a butter knife. MMMM....!!!
2006-11-06 15:44:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
You are not really eating cranberry sauce, you are eating jellied cranberry juice. I like it best, too.
But originally, cranberries were cooked and mashed, then sugar or syrup was added to make it palatable. Unsweetened cranberry juice is not drinkable. Talk about pucker power.
Anyway, wild meat, including turkey, has a very strong taste, usually referred to as "gamy" Strong sauces make the meat more acceptable. Cranberrys, dried grapes (raisins) and other fruits were cooked down and served as a sauce over the roast meat. Wild duck is very oily, so tart fruit sauces are great with it. Wild turkey is dry and strong, often tasting like what they have been eating. Deer (venison) often tastes of sage or wild rosemary if they have been grazing on it.
2006-11-06 16:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cranberries are much like any other berries.
When you cook them with sugar and water they break down and form a sauce.
If you continue to cook it, it will gel and become jam, depending on the amount of pectin.
If you added nuts to it, it would be a conserve.
If raisins or something like that were in it, it would be a chutney.
If the juice alone was cooked with sugar and water, it would turn into sauce and then later into jelly (as it cooled and set).
If you really cooked it a long time after the jelly stage you would have some king of hard cranberry candy (like a life-saver).
And if you cooked it beyond that, it would likely become a job for the fire department.
2006-11-06 19:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by Sue L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are talking about can be called cranberry sauce only by the widest definition of the term.
Try Alton Brown's recipe if you want real cranberry sauce.
2006-11-06 19:08:45 · answer #3 · answered by barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sauced is a cooking term, as to sauce something, which is a stage you come to during a reducttion. The break-down of a fiber to pre-liquid stage.
2006-11-06 15:53:06 · answer #4 · answered by Steve G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That stuff in the can isn't cranberry sauce, it's cranberry jello
2006-11-06 15:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by Molly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they call it that because it is cranberry sauce but with geletain in it to help it stay in the can.
2006-11-06 16:06:07 · answer #6 · answered by Dark Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Cranberry Goop" doesn't sell as well. I love the stuff, too, regardless of what the name is.
2006-11-06 15:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because if you heat it gently to dissolve the gelatin, it becomes a sauce again!
2006-11-06 15:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by moehawk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heyy, why Not?
2006-11-06 15:50:13 · answer #9 · answered by KattyoOo... 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋