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The Best Cranberry Sauce Recipe

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Cranberry Sauce cooking for Thanksgiving

Take my word for it, this is in the top ten of Cranberry Sauce Recipes. I’ve made it for years during the holidays, and even not during the holidays—because it’s that good and adds to many dishes. Plus, your kitchen will smell Divine!!!!

Of course, a nip of the port doesn’t hurt either.


A toast of Sherry Wine while making cranberry sauce

The Recipe

Makes 2 cups

The Ingredient List

1 cup tawny port, or substitute cranberry or pomegranate juice

(NOTE: I have used 1/2 cup port and 1/2 cup juice and it worked fine)

1 cup water

1 cup fresh cranberries

½ cup naturally sweetened dried cranberries

1 small apple, peeled and grated (1/2 cup)

2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest, or substitute 1 tsp grated ginger

(NOTE: I use orange zest)

The Preparation Method

  • Bring port, both fresh and dried cranberries, apple, orange zest or ginger and water to a boil in medium saucepan over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 25 – 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
  • Toward the end, stir to mash cranberries.
  • If it’s seems to have more liquid than you prefer, low boil without a lid to allow evaporation till you find desired consistency.
  • Cool before serving. Keeps 3-4 days in the refrigerator, if it lasts that long.

Use it to spread on those turkey sandwiches, or top the Saturday Morning (Pumpkin) Pancakes!


Cranberry Sauce Finished

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Phebe

Phebe and Mac live with six cats in North East Texas.

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Phebe Phillips, 2021, Podcaster, Cat Lover, Poet, Storyteller

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She writes poetry and short essays for publication in journals. She has two upcoming books, Sleeping With Louie—a daughter’s soul journey as an only child of a mother with Borderline Personality Disorder, who was also an only child, and Upper East Side of The Pines—growing up in East Texas during the sweetness of the 1960s. She is married to Mac. They live with six cats! For now, they live in Dallas, Texas until they move deep into the East Texas piney woods in 2022.

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