Using Science to Make the Ultimate Cranberry Dessert | What’s Eating Dan?
Cranberries deserve more than being relegated to a simple holiday condiment. Dan dives into the history of cranberries and shows you how to make recipes that showcase cranberries’ bold flavor and brilliant color.
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I made the tart and it was great!
"I feel like I'm swimming in a bog over here!"
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Fresh cranberry sauce cooked with half orange juice and half water. I grew up with the canned jelly stuff.
So the egg didn't scramble when you added it to the hot cranberry?
Next week Dan teaches us how to make an alarm clock out of strawberries.
Came for zombie, stuck around for dessert.
from the can, and in the shape of the can. I make Jim Newell's cranberry orange relish from scratch but the entire family prefers the can.
You had me at the start there, dude.
My recipe that fixes people's "meh" reaction to cranberries is making a relish.
1 bag fresh berries, 1 whole orange (Cut into 1/4ths, peel and all), 1 cup sugar. Chop medium-finely with a grinder or food processor and let rest overnight. If you let it rest overnight, it's god tier. You can heat it up enough to sterilize it and jar it for cranberry orangr relish jam that makes the most amazing PB&J.
Homemade sauce and relish always here! Pretty typical orange-cranberry relish, but we add fresh ginger and some clove to the sauce–so, so good!
Julia O’Malley from Alaska has one of these in her cookbook. Very legit.
Who stole who's recipe Dan from Lan….or Lan from Dan
Your straight face when you're being funny cracks me up.
So this is how I make cranberry sauce (2 recipes, 2 methods):
Recipe #1: Fresh (non-alcoholic) Cranberry Sauce: 12-oz. Bag fresh cranberries, 1/3 cup orange juice, 1 T. grated orange peel, 1 cup sugar. Mix all ingredients in microwave-safe covered bowl. Microwave on high for 8 minutes. Stir. Cranberries should be popped open. A few will remain whole. Pop these with the back of a spoon. If they don’t open easily, recook for another minute. 8-10 servings
Recipe #2: 1 bag fresh cranberries, 1 C. apricot brandy or Triple Sec, ¾ C. sugar, Bake uncovered @350o for 1 hour or microwave as above. Chill.
Both are quick and simple and really good. So easy and good that you might serve them beyond Thanksgiving.
Every year, I make fresh, classic, whole cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving (Hey, same recipe as in America's Test Kitchen!). Yes, they whine and moan about the lack of that lack of sploop sound, but no matter how much I make, there is never enough. 🙂
That gigantic can of cranberry sauce reveal was absolutely hilarious!
Really can't get enough of Dan's content. Always fun, entertaining, and educational! Would love to see Dan and Lan go head to head in a co-lab video one day.
Dan's story in the recent issue of Cook's County made me laugh. What a great issue! December. 2022. ❤️✌️🥂
You can't get a perfect bite at Thanksgiving without the cranberry sauce
Also, The Cranberries were my favorite band through college. Great reference.
I have made cranberry sauce in the past, but since I enjoy the Ocean Spray whole berries and jelly can, I find I don't need to go the extra mile. Cranberry sauce with melted brie and a slice of a Piney Rivery Wine Sap apple on a leftover turkey sandwich may be about the best part of Thanksgiving.
Dan, Thank you for plugging The Beatles and clarifying what John is actually saying at the end of Strawberry Fields. All the conspiracy theorists of 1967 thought he was saying, "I buried Paul!" And I make cooked cranberry sauce on the stove with orange zest and juice, but I grew up with the jelly and the whole berry sauce.
For some reason Prince’s song is coming into my head with a new title : Cranberry Beret! Loved the video. My in laws love to make a fresh cranberry relish with orange and orange zest mixed in. I like the flavor but not a fan of the leathery cranberry skins. I suppose if they strained them out I would like it better. I prefer a cooked cranberry jelly with blueberries, apple cider, orange zest, cinnamon, vanilla and sweetened with honey and maple syrup.
I make my own cranberry sauce at T'giving; we eat it first, and I make it an appetizer to be force-fed to all prior to the setting of the holiday table. "You want turkey? You try cranberries!"
Growing up, we always had canned cranberry sauce, which I still like. But for several years now I’ve been making cranberry sauce with orange and ginger.
gluten free getting that side mention 😍 celiac life has come so far
Jellied, and no compromise!
Jellied from the can…always. May need to try that tart though!
I do not believe that cranberries were found in 1989… There is no way…
I make fresh cranberry orange sauce, but Thanksgiving isn’t complete unless we have the canned sauce too!
I like to mix raspberries with the cranberries to cook for a relish. So good
That tart looks amazing.
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I feel like, at least me personally, kinda sleep on Lan Lam. Every recipe she does is legendary.
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relish. But- our sons love slicing the canned stuff for a leftover turkey/green bean/wite house roll sandwich
My childhood Thanksgiving table always had my the cranberry relish my grandfather had freshly made (uncooked ground cranberries, the juice of 1 orange, and sugar), as well as canned cranberry jelly. Both, strangely enough, were referred to as cranberry sauce. 🤷🏻♀️🤣
I made that tart. It’s amazing.
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Totally a fresh cranberry/orange relish type situation for my family at the holidays. So much better than the stuff from the can.