I agree with The Hoarse Whisperer on this.....

[Nevilledog]

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The Hoarse Whisperer
@TheRealHoarse
This is the only true cranberry sauce.

I won’t be taking questions at this time.
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[SoonerPride]

1. Agree 100%

This is the one true sauce.

[Phoenix61]

2. Nope! Homemade with a tablespoon of Grand Mariner. nt

[soothsayer]

8. Also good, as long as you have the other kind on hand too

[lapfog_1]

19. also good without any cranberries

except for these

[AwakeAtLast]

28. Bourbon

Delish!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Alright.

[leftieNanner]

4. ABSOLUTELY!

But I do make the stupid sauce for other members of my family.

[MerryBlooms]

5. !

[soothsayer]

6. Truth

[smirkymonkey]

7. We need a poll on this.

I like homemade cranberry sauce or relish.

[woodsprite]

9. I like that one, but I also like my Whole Berry Jack Daniels whiskey version!

What I can't stand is raw cranberry relish where you grind up cranberries (fresh from the bag), oranges (including their peels), walnuts, and add tons of sugar. My MIL dishes everybody's plate up and everyone gets a salad bowl full of that. YUCK!!!

[niyad]

36. And yet, every year, it is requested that I make that fresh relish for our group t-day festivities.

Our group loves it. Of course, I don't add walnuts. I do add Pom Aprils and finely diced habanero sauce, and very little sugar. After t-day, you can run any left-over relish through the food processor with cream cheese. Great spread for turkey sandwiches.

Will be doing it for myself this year. We, of course, will not have our holiday get together.

[greenjar_01]

10. Oooof

[Sherman A1]

11. My favorite

but not sure about it being the one true cranberry sauce.

[Solly Mack]

12. I must confess. Put both the canned and homemade on the table and I'll go for the canned.

I don't care how good the homemade is - 'cause I make a really good one. Still, give me the canned and let me be.

[LakeArenal]

13. The Patriotic choice!!🇺🇸

Our state grows tons of cranberries.

Still the canned slime is trueThanksgiving.

We took a can to our Costa Rica restaurant last year for Thanksgiving.
They did t serve and we were ????
Just before dessert she brought it out cubed with toothpicks for service.
She thought it was a dessert item.

[Under The Radar]

14. ...just as common as well water

[cayugafalls]

15. All that HFC, no thank you, Grandma's recipe still rocks and is easy to make.

[Duppers]

33. I love my homemade.

Yes, I cook the berries down a bit & add a lot of ingredients.

I put both the canned sauce, along with my h.m. on the table. Guess which is eaten. 😁

[cayugafalls]

56. I know which one I would eat.

I have always preferred homemade. The canned jelly seems way to sweet for me and has a off taste, I love the tang of homemade and the way I can control the flavors. You can even add some maple syrup instead of sugar for a different taste that is really quite exceptional.

When you control the cook, you control the flavor, experimenting is half the fun of cooking.

[Duppers]

57. Yes indeedy.

👍

[dflprincess]

16. I agree.

It's what Mom always used. She would use her egg slicer in it and we'd get cranberry circles.

[58Sunliner]

17. LOL. Sacrilege.

[mopinko]

18. it's not sauce.

it's jelly.

[2naSalit]

20. Yikes, no thanks!

I like my home-made recipe...

A bag of whole, raw cranberries and half an orange (unpeeled), grind up in food processor and add two Tablespoons of some kind of sweetener and 2 T of brandy. It's more like a relish but it's the best!

[MontanaMama]

22. Writing your recipe down...

I also put a bag of whole raw cranberries in the food processor...fresh lime juice and the zest of one lime...a diced jalapeño and sweeten to taste. Sweet, tart and a little spicy...very fresh.

[2naSalit]

39. Oooh!

That sounds good too! The recipe I use came from my friend from eastern Europe, she has some of the best recipes on the planet. The jalapeno might be a bit much for me but I can see where it would be a good variation.

[MontanaMama]

51. I swear you can't find a hot jalapeo anymore.

Try a half a pepper...seeded and deveined. Does your friend from Eastern Europe live here now? Folks from other corners of the world have secrets to share!

[2naSalit]

52. Oh yes...

She has been my dearest friend and mentor when it comes to food and natural medicines. She's not going to be around a lot longer, I fear as her health has been failing and yesterday she said she thinks she may have covid.

But in the 28 years that we have known each other, I have picked her brain for good foods, she wins "stump the chef" every time, she's also a cultural anthropologist. And she is a superb chef, or was until she fell ill a couple years ago. She introduced me to all kinds of foods, including goat roast which is actually good and is much like pork roast.

[MontanaMama]

54. Oh no.

I am hopeful she doesn’t have Covid. Dammit! She sounds like a wonderful friend. I’m sorry she’s not doing well. Why is it the most evil people seem to thrive?

I’ve never eaten goat but my husband had goat roasted on a spit over an open fire when he was in Mexico. He said it was just wonderful. I would love to try it.

[2naSalit]

55. She made it...

Croatian style, dredged in paprika. She uses Hungarian paprika a lot so I am guessing that's what kind she used. It was very good. She used to feed me a lot when I was in college, her husband was my Latin and French professor. They sort of adopted me early in my Freshman year.

She also made her own filo dough and would stretch it across the dining table and make huge strudels that when baking would fill the neighborhood with wonderful aromas. Friends passing by would stop in for a taste whenever she baked one as if the smells caught them by the nose and pulled them to the door. She was always cooking something and even did a bit of catering.

I've learned so much from her, kind of made up for my not having a mother in my home after age nine. So I will always cherish her friendship, probably more than my actual mother, who is not doing well either.

[magicarpet]

21. Really,... could it at least be mashed up with a potato masher,...

So that lived in a can look can be eliminated,... ? The visual is so important when it comes to food presentation. Who wants a red tin can in the middle of a holiday dinning table ? Maybe a few sprigs of curly parsley for color ?

[bamagal62]

23. Eewww.

We always had both on our table growing up. But the canned one always grossed me out.

[Duppers]

34. Same.

[tanyev]

24. Yep. Mom always liked to make it from scratch,

but there were some years we had the canned. I never told her I preferred the canned. I don’t know why—maybe it’s a texture thing. Homemade cranberry sauce, no matter how tasty, always has more of a relish/chutney texture which seems unnecessary when there is so much other stuff going on in the meal. Just give me a little spoonful of cranberry gel next to the turkey and dressing and I’m good.

[The Genealogist]

25. I'll eat the other kind but

to me, this will always be what is served at Thanksgiving, as it was what was always served at Thanksgiving when I was growing up. Thanksgiving for me has always been a nostalgia holiday, just like Christmas.

[handmade34]

26. we all need

something to feel nostalgic about

[happybird]

27. Yep.

It spreads so well on a sandwich, too.
Gawd, I love Thanksgiving! Best meal and leftovers of the year!

[AwakeAtLast]

29. My husband's favorite

Already have my can.

[peggysue2]

30. LOL!

Totally agree. Call it a hattip to childhood, nostalgia gone wild but I just picked up a can of Oceanspray cranberry sauce. Because Thanksgiving turkey wouldn't taste as good without it. I've tried the fancier, more expensive, all fresh recipes but . . .

The picture above? It's the old and true.

[NurseJackie]

31. Amen! And that's EXACTLY how it should be served!!

[warmfeet]

32. It makes quite the interesting sound when emerging from the can.

[Duppers]

35. Nope. Sorry.

[JI7]

37. I like that one better than most

[llmart]

38. Yep. It's all about the nostalgia for some of us boomers.

You younguns on this forum don't remember a time where there really weren't that many food choices to be had. Growing up in the 50's and 60's most of us had this on the Thanksgiving table. When I was a child I hated it and wouldn't eat it, but it became an acquired taste as I got older, maybe late teens. It's the only time of year I would ever have it though and only with turkey.

Ah, nostalgia is what us old folks live for these days.

[2naSalit]

40. When I was a kid during the time you mention...

That is all we had too. In fact, except when the garden was active, most vegetables came from a can from the store or a canning jar and in later years, the freezer. But I rarely eat anything from a can for the past several decades.

[llmart]

46. All true.

My mother had a repertoire of about six dinners that she just rotated weekly. The variety of items in our grocery stores, especially the more upscale specialty stores today still amazes me. We lived in a rural area so summers were nothing but fresh veggies most of the time and then my mother canned for winter. We didn't have a freezer other than the tiny one on top of the Kelvinator. We had canned veggies from the store (yuck) in the winter also. There were only a few varieties of those also.

[Peacetrain]

41. I have to disagree with you on this one.. not my fav..

too much like jelly.. the taste is okay, but the texture creeps me out..

[Nevilledog]

42. But it's in the shape of a can!

I was fascinated by this as a kid.

[Peacetrain]

44. You know I get that..the can shape..

[usaf-vet]

43. Nope! my fresh fruit cranberry growing cousin would not agree.

[RainCaster]

45. Yes! The only kind that is sliceable

Makes a great addition to a turkey sandwich, too.

[GoCubsGo]

47. I love that stuff, but it ain't "sauce."

Sauce is fluid, not jellied. That being said, this is my favorite cranberry delivery system, so I halfway agree with Horsewhisperer.

[Aussie105]

48. So this giant blob of offessiveness . . .

What are the ingredients?

10% cranberry, 90 % gelatin, coloring and preservatives?

Offensive to dead turkeys, that is!

[ancianita]

49. My favorite.

[WVreaper]

50. It't out of a can. No!

Late October we venture into the local cranberry bogs to pick berries. One of the only things that I like out of a can is one of the local craft beers.

[moonscape]

53. Sorta like a friend who grewup

on Spam loves it to this day. And why I love the processed pimento cheese of my youth.

But this stuff? Just no.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

58. I used to be able

To pop a can in the fridge.. let it chill

Than sit down and eat the whole can.

I love cranberries.

Now that I'm diabetic
I eat a few frozen cranberries with a dusting of stevia.