The cranberries are boiled with sugar and often other ingredients such as orange juice or zest. Cranberry sauce may be condensed or jellied and thus shaped like a cylinder due to the shape of steel cans that often contain the sauce, or may be loose and uncondensed. Cranberry sauce is often eaten in conjunction with turkey for Christmas dinner in the UK and for Thanksgiving dinner in the US, and it is only rarely eaten in other contexts.
In the U.S., most cranberry sauce (and cranberry products in general) is produced by the company Ocean Spray.
Some varieties of cranberry sauce may not be appropriate for vegetarians as it may contain gelatin.
Cranberry Trivia
John Lennon repeated the words Cranberry sauce at the end of the song Strawberry Fields Forever, a fact that Lennon confirmed in a 1980 Playboy interview. He stated it was a kind of icing on the cake of the weirdness of song, where anything he might have imagined saying would have been appropriate.
External links
Categories: Christmas food