its good.

trmac08 - November 22, 2008 08:12:57 PM PST

my sister has this exact recipe and she fixes it every year because all of her sisters ask her too! It is a delicious recipe and goes with just about every and anything you can possibly think of. Add a minute amount of cloves and it becomes out of this world.

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Easy, basic recipe but with lots of options to personalize - and WAY better than canned.

d_kink - November 24, 2008 02:04:01 AM PST

This is the basic recipe on the cranberry packages - what I do to personalize it some more is:

1) I too add the orange zest, but I also add some lime zest (be careful to not get any of the "white" from the lime zest, it is much more bitter than the white part of the orange zest.)
2) I replace some of the water with the juice of the orange I zest as well as the juice of the lime I zest.
3) I also cut back the sugar to about 3/4 cup - the sweetness isn\'t too affected because of the orange juice but it does mean it doesn\'t thicken up quite as much because the ratios of liquid to sugars are now off. However I think this is still a great consistency.

I think the next time I make this I might try some of the things in the Martha Stewart Cognac cranberry recipe like adding the Cognac, Cinnamon stick, black peppercorns, etc.

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