[Magdalen] Cranberry Time.

[Marion Thompson]

Surely uncooked cranberries would be downright unpleasant to eat?

Marion, a pilgrim

On 11/30/2015 2:33 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
> Mine uses orange, crushed pineapple, (sugar-free) lemon Jello, chopped
> celery and walnuts.  Yum, yum, slurp, slurp.  Will finish up a big dish
> full tomorrow or the next day.  Love the texture and mouth-feel, as well as
> the taste.  I sweetened the cranberries with splenda, using only about half
> what the recipe called for (because I knew the Jello and pineapple
> (including juice) would also be sweet.  No cooking at all, except to heat
> orange juice to boiling to dissolve the Jello.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>> The cranberry relish included in our Bob Evans Restaurant "Family  Feast"
>> yesterday (and today, and probably tomorrow, too) is the best part of  the
>> meal.  Their recipe seems to include some orange, and other  undefined
>> additives.
>>
>> There has been heavy television advertising for cranberries,  especially
>> the ones with the old duffer (description by another old duffer) and  young
>> man in the flooded cranberry bog, and sponsored by Ocean Spray
>> Brand.
>>
>> This gives the impression that the most important cranberry harvest  is
>> along the Atlantic Coast.  This is a misconception, since more  than
>> half the USA harvest is from the bogs along the Wisconsin River
>> Outwash Plains in Central Wisconsin.  In fact Wisconsin produces  more
>> cranberries than the rest of the USA put together.
>>
>> The biggest producer company is by far the Northland Company, which
>> does have some bogs out of Wisconsin, including in Massachusetts.
>>
>> So look for Northland Brand Cranberries.  I found them here at  one
>> of our supermarkets.
>>
>> Move over Ocean Spray.
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>