Every couple of years I buy raw cranberries and make a dozen or so pints of cranberry sauce and can it. Waterbath.
Then I can have cranberry sauce whenever I want it. I make it pretty much like the recipe on the bag but maybe a tad less sugar.
It sets up nice and firm since cranberries have so much pectin. They grow in OR and I’d love to get local berries but I have no idea how to get them.
Hubby loves cranberries. Me? Not so much. lol
I do my own homemade cranberry sauce and can it up myself as well.
The cranberries usually go on sale at some time in the fall. I learned the hard way that they are a seasonal item.
BTW, they freeze up very well. I wash them first, dry them on a towel, and then freeze them on a cookie sheet. That way they freeze separately and they pour into ziplock bags like little marbles. And pour out the same way.
We make cranberry apple pie with them, make as a regular apple pie but alternate layers of cranberries and apples.
And don’t forget to add enough sugar to the cranberry layers.