[Magdalen] Cranberry Time.

[Charles Wohlers]

The "unpleasantness" is due to the fact that cranberries are quite tart - 
plenty of acid, not so much sugar to mask it. It has nothing to do with 
whether or not they're cooked. All they need is some extra sugar or other 
sweetener to make them yummy.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Marion Thompson
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 3:52 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cranberry Time.

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.
>>