Homestead Series How To Make Cranberry Sauce and Can It

Making your own fresh cranberry sauce taste so good. It also saves a lot of money.

Recipe for one batch:
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 bag cranberries (3 cups)

Bring water and sugar to a boil. Add cranberries, return to a boil. Turn down and simmer for 10 minutes.
If your using it now, cool to room temp then chill in the fridge.
If you would like to can it, pour into jars. Remove air bubbles, wipe rims. Place lids on and can for 15 min in a water bath canner.

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[travisjeanelle]

What is the weight of the cranberries? We get them fresh from the marsh. We dont buy from the store.

[HomesteadAcres]

I don't know the weight off hand. But there are 3 cups of berries in each bag.

[travisjeanelle]

ok thank you so it would be 1c water 1c sugar to 3c berries?

[HomesteadAcres]

Yes that would be right :-). In the video I just tripled it.

[Michigansnowpony]

Cool! I've never done anything with cranberries. When I was growing up, during the holidays, we'd have that awful canned gel stuff. That has always been my idea of cranberry relish. (Yuck!) Yours looks much much more appealing! But I have a question: Do you eat this as is, or do you use it more for baking / cooking?

[HomesteadAcres]

We eat it as is. :-) But you could use it in any recipe calling for cranberry sauce to. I grew up eating the canned gel stuff to. lol it's ok but I like fresh better!

[Eszra]

Thank you so much for making this! Now I know how!

[kiuri2615]

thanks, that is very good I love it ! :>)

[MrsRCharlton]

@Dustycajungurl Hard to say. If that happens, give it a few hours and then pull the screwband off and try picking up the jar by the lid. If the lid is truly sealed, you should be able to pick it up just by the metal snap lid. If it's not really sealed, the lid will come off in your hand.

[9aspengold5]

I make homemade sauce because my husband is diabetic. I usually freeze small containers, but I may try to can them this year and see what happens.

[ggmorvaj]

Last Christmas I used frozen red currants to make sauce, instead of cranberries & everybody loved it. I used the same recipe as yours,except no water added & an extra cup of red currants(because the currants seem so much juicier than cranberries).

I just thought I'd mention this in case anyone has currant bushes.

After watching your excellent video, I've decided to can the sauce for Christmas & Thanksgiving)

The currants are ripe right now!!! Thank You for this helpful video!

[GettingThereGreen]

This is a good idea. I prefer to make cranberry sauce rather than buy cans from the store. But one bag of cranberries makes far more than is needed for one meal so a lot ends up wasted in the end. I never thought about canning the leftovers. I could just make more to begin with and can all the extra for use later. mmmm I love cranberries. ~Amanda

[Crutchcor]

Not sure why, but Youtube seems to allow this one to upload slower then other videos. Its taking forever to load, and this is the best cranberry video I have seen.

[BeanIrene]

So I made this recipe and canned it last night. I really liked it. Very simple, and cans very well. Looks beautiful after it is set. Thanks again.

[BeanIrene]

Sounds interesting.

[BeanIrene]

Yumm! I am produce shopping tomorrow and now I am really inspired! I have recipes for dandelion syrup.