A 2-Ingredient Thanksgiving · Number 1

Cranberry Sauce

  • Two ingredients
  • Day before
Two hands holding the cold pint jar of cranberry sauce up toward the window the next morning, the sauce set firm and dark red, a palm print fading from the misted glass
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You need

Good to know: For one or two; salt, pepper, oil, water and butter are free.

What to do

  1. Boil the sugar with ½ cup water until dissolved.
  2. Add the berries, return to a boil, then bubble gently 10 min, until most have burst.
  3. Don't mash.
  4. Cool, jar and refrigerate.
  5. Keeps a good week.

Adapted from a recipe by Ocean Spray.

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