Great piece as always, hitting on the history, the chemistry, and the ecological aspects of this favorite food of mine. We've got cranberry orange relish, cranberry lemon bars, and cranberry nut bread on the menu this week. Tis the season!
Thanks for sharing. Great timing! I was just wondering what would grow in the moist section of my new food forest. Still in the planning stages so I think you have saved me a mistake. ☺
I toured a cranberry farm off the coast of Oregon some years back. Fascinating plant. Today I’m offering for my family’s Thanksgiving table two cranberry ferments: whole berries pickled with cloves, ginger, and cinnamon and a relish made with oranges and ginger (and sweetened at table with some maple syrup). Both are delicious!
Amazing piece on Cranberries! Thank you. I recently bought some and they were seedless and dissappointingly lacking flavour. Not sure of variety but they were from the US. Have eaten the ones with seed before and find them healing flu and fever. Intrigued they have the name vaccinium.
Thanks! Glad you liked the post. I'd think the cranberries should be noticeably tart. The Vaccinium macrocarpon don't have crunchy seeds that people notice when they're eating the berries. But they're in there.
Around here, we're wild about the elderberries for addressing the flu, and it's better to not crush those seeds. Let them pass from end to end undisturbed. :-D
Right! Elderberries I use in dried firm for loose tea concoctions and for colds. The cranberries I had were if large seeds that were inedible. At least to my knowledge. They did the job for severe flu handling in their raw state.
Funny thing about drought. It's harder to keep the fed, but whatever produce can be irrigated is often better.. less disease and bugs. So there were some pluses to go with the minuses, and reasons to give thanks.
Great piece as always, hitting on the history, the chemistry, and the ecological aspects of this favorite food of mine. We've got cranberry orange relish, cranberry lemon bars, and cranberry nut bread on the menu this week. Tis the season!
So you fixed up all your sweet stuff right!!! Thanks for your kind words. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks for sharing. Great timing! I was just wondering what would grow in the moist section of my new food forest. Still in the planning stages so I think you have saved me a mistake. ☺
I toured a cranberry farm off the coast of Oregon some years back. Fascinating plant. Today I’m offering for my family’s Thanksgiving table two cranberry ferments: whole berries pickled with cloves, ginger, and cinnamon and a relish made with oranges and ginger (and sweetened at table with some maple syrup). Both are delicious!
Sounds so yummy. You'll all have perfect gastrointestinal tone for thanksgiving. 😎
Getting down in the bog and pushing a load of berries through the water would be so much fun. Imagine a zillion floating berries all around you.
Definitely 💯!
I made a fabulous cranberry-orange relish a few years ago, but my kids just wanted the jellied stuff in a can!!
They're after the sugar buzz. But getting them to do cranberry is a first step.
I love cooking with cranberries. For today (Thanksgiving) I put them in the stuffing balls, the apple pies, and the green beans. YUM
Amazing piece on Cranberries! Thank you. I recently bought some and they were seedless and dissappointingly lacking flavour. Not sure of variety but they were from the US. Have eaten the ones with seed before and find them healing flu and fever. Intrigued they have the name vaccinium.
Thanks! Glad you liked the post. I'd think the cranberries should be noticeably tart. The Vaccinium macrocarpon don't have crunchy seeds that people notice when they're eating the berries. But they're in there.
Around here, we're wild about the elderberries for addressing the flu, and it's better to not crush those seeds. Let them pass from end to end undisturbed. :-D
Right! Elderberries I use in dried firm for loose tea concoctions and for colds. The cranberries I had were if large seeds that were inedible. At least to my knowledge. They did the job for severe flu handling in their raw state.
The highbush cranberry (really Viburnum species ) has the big seeds. And it supplies the amazing "cramp bark". Lots of vitamin C in the berries.
It's wild how many berries can grow way up in the frozen northland. We got very little this year with drought.
Ah sorry to hear you’ve not got too much this year.
Funny thing about drought. It's harder to keep the fed, but whatever produce can be irrigated is often better.. less disease and bugs. So there were some pluses to go with the minuses, and reasons to give thanks.
Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed it.