Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

It’s cranberry season! Years ago, we lived on the Washington coast and every year in October, the cranberry harvest would begin. The bogs would be flooded and the small pink berries would float to the top. It was really a beautiful scene on a foggy, coastal morning. The farmers would don their waders and begin knocking the berries off the bushes and scooping them up for harvest. Every year in October I begin keeping my eye out for this season’s harvest to arrive in the stores! I buy at least one bag every time I order groceries or walk by the case in the store. We use cranberries at our house throughout the year. Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins are a favorite, as well as Cranberry Chocolate Fudge, and making Cranberry Juice to mix with orange juice. As the store tends to run out long before the next harvest, I always make…

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