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Cranberry Orange Sauce

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I, er, mixed up my recipe provenances when I said my stepgrandmother was the source for this sauce. The recipe actually comes from a thinly lined sheet of paper in my stepmother's recipe clippings, and she, in turn, copied it out of a magazine in an airplane several years ago.

It might be my ideal cranberry sauce: it's textured and tasty, with spicy notes and chunky nuts and the gloriously astringent flavor of cranberries. Is anyone else Thanksgiving-ed out? I'm keeping this short and sweet.

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Cranberry Orange Sauce
Yields: 2 1/4 cups

1 bag cranberries (12 oz)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
1/3 cup orange liqueur (Cointreau or Grand Marnier, for example)
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 tbsp grated orange rind
1/2 cup toasted, chopped pecans

1. Combine first seven ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce to medium heat, simmer, stirring frequently, until cranberries have popped and the mixture has thickened slightly - around 10 minutes. Set aside and cool slightly. Stir in orange zest and pecans.

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Hi, Luisa,

Yesterday I made some toaster cake corn muffins - which I iced with powdered sugar and then added a dollop of raspberry preserves. After I found this sauce on your site, I think I will have to try this in place of the raspberry jam...especially come fall. For my toaster cake recipe, go to:

http://marysnest.typepad.com/marys_nest/2008/08/remembering-tho.html

Thanks so much for all the great food and entertaining tips.

All the best,

Mary

We tried this last weekend and loved it. The cointreau and spice add wonderful flavors to the often too tart cranberries. Nice!

luisa, this sauce is stunningly good! it was hands-down the star of our thanksgiving dinner last week and so easy to make. i omitted the nuts and used triple sec because i didn't have cointreau and it was still so good. thanks.

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