It's so easy to make your own cranberry sauce, and I make it each year to give as gifts. This is my most popular variety - inspired by one of my favourite winter drinks, mulled wine. It has such a lovely balance of sweet, spicy, bitter and sour - it's simply amazing with salty turkey with gravy or a well seasoned ham.
The alcohol is burned off during cooking, but I make another version replacing the wine with half water/ half orange juice that also works beautifully.
Ingredients:
- 340g cranberries (standard 12 oz packet size)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup red wine
- rind of 1/2 an orange (as little pith as possible)
- 1 large cinnamon quill
- 5 cloves
