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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Harvesting Cranberries For Your Thanksgiving Sauce Is “Kind Of A Fun Job”

Perhaps you think cranberry sauce is somehow grown in a can and plops out just when you need it for Thanksgiving dinner. Or maybe some kind of berry fairy goes along picking cranberries from a bush and leaves them on the doorstep when it’s time to make the sauce. Only one of those things are true. Okay, neither is. Cranberries have a backstory and it doesn’t start in a can or on a bush.

We’re sure plenty of you do know that cranberries come from bogs, but for the rest of us, that’s where they lie in wait on their vines until what I will call cranberry fishermen come to harvest them.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM

    Yeah, I was educated by a tour bus guide on cranberry blogs this year. Made me look up how to make my own cranberry sauce and it was super simple: Berries, Sugar, and orange juice. Cook until the berries pop and chill. Takes less time than going to the store to buy a can.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 29, 2013 at 12:42 AM

    You must live in the back of a store. Personally I don't like cranberries.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 29, 2013 at 6:18 PM

    Thank you, 6:28, I got it and you gave me a good smirk for the day! Just so you know, there's one of us out there...

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  4. AnonymousNovember 30, 2013 at 8:16 PM

    It doesn't need to stop here. I just put up a batch of orange-cranberry vodka for serving over the Christmas holiday. Yummy red color for mixing with Tonic and a lime slice.

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