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Cranberry Preserve

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  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.
  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Soda
  2. Rub
  3. one cupful of sugar
  4. 1 quart cranberries
  5. Water
  6. Berries

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Cranberry Source of vitamin C

    Source of vitamin C · 14 mg per 100 g, 18% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Cranberries, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Method

  1. 1 quart cranberries 1 pint (2 cups) water ½ teaspoonful carbonate of soda Sugar Pick over the berries, put them into an earthenware pot with the water, and cook slowly for one hour, stirring occasionally.
  2. Draw the pan to the side of the stove, and add the soda.
  3. Stir well, and carefully remove all scum as it rises.
  4. Then rub through a sieve, and to every cupful of the purée add one cupful of sugar.
  5. Return to the pan and cook gently for half an hour.
  6. Put into jars and seal.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve