Cranberry Jelly

Ingredients

• 1 quart of cranberries
• 1½ cups of cold water
• 2 cups of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Pick over and wash the cranberries, then chop them a little.

2. 2

   Boil with cold water and sugar for five minutes; rub while hot through a sieve, and pour into a pretty mold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cranberry jelly, and perhaps a salad. 218 THE FUN OF COOKING and then something sweet to finish with. Do you think that would do f **Yes, and some kind of a hot drink, I sup- pose; coffee for Father and Uncle and Aunt Mary and you, and cocoa for the rest of us ; only I ^m so tired of cocoa, I don't believe I could drink a drop. ' ' **We certainly have had it pretty often for lunch lately ; I Ve noticed it myself and meant to speak to Norah about it. I think I can find something else for all of us which you will like better — something especially meant for Thanks- giving. *' '*What the Pilgrim Fathers had for their Thanksgiving dinner, I suppose,'' laughed Mil- dred. **I 'm sure it will be good, too, and we '11 love it. ' ' School closed the day before Thanksgiving, and that afternoon Mildred and Brownie began to be thankful, because there would be no more lessons till Monday. They put their books away, planned the funny little play they were going to have the next evening, and got together everything they would need for that ; then they said it was time to think about the supper in the library. ** We will wait till Norah has gone out and the THANKSGIVING DAY SUPPER 219 kitchen is all in order/' said Mildred. **Tlien we can get out the things we waat to carry into the other room, and put them on two trays; Jack and Cousin Fred can carry them when we are ready. Plates, and knives, and forks, and glasses, and napkins; and the platter of tur- key— '^ *'And salt,'* said Brownie, ^*and bread, and butter.'' **Yes; and cranberry jelly. Then we will make the hot things and bring them in after- ward. ' ' **What shall we make to-day, Mildred T' **I wonder if Norah has made the cranberry jelly for dinner yet; if she hasn't, you and I might make that now, and divide it and put part away for the supper. And we can make the des- sert, or whatever Mother thinks we had better have. The salad we shall have to make to-mor- row. ' ' Norah was that very minute preparing to make the crauberry jelly, but she said she was in a hurry, and the girls could make it if they would promise not to get in her way. They got the receipt from their mother, and began in a comer as far off from Norah as they could get 220 THE FUN OF COOKING CRANBEflRY JELLY 1 quart of cranberries. Pick them over and wash them, then cl^op them a little. 1% cups of cold water. 2 cups of sugar

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