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You Should Ferment Some Cranberries in Honey Immediately Get yourself to the store or farmers market today and dump them suckers into a jar.
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Posted on 11/05/2021 7:28:21 AM PDT by mylife

My appreciation for the cranberry knows no bounds. I am the rare fan of unsweetened cranberry juice, the kind that makes your face pucker. I brew cranberry iced tea in summer, and I make cranberry edibles. Because of all of that, I suspect I have the urinary health of a racehorse. (I actually have no idea if racehorses have healthy urinary tracts or not, but it sounded like a good flex).

Admittedly, there are a limited number of things you can do with a cranberry. You can juice it. You can jam it. But I rarely see a truly creative application—you won’t find deep fried cranberries on any menu, nor will you find them among the apples as part of a fondue setup. Yet I am always looking for new and inventive ways to celebrate the smallest hero on the Thanksgiving table.

Good news, I found one: Fermenting cranberries in honey.

Why ferment them? Fermented foods are great for you, and fermenting cranberries ups the ante on the underrated fruit’s health benefits. The honey also sweetens the cran, giving it a candy-like quality—popping them into your mouth is quite delightful. The honey can be used on its own, but I prefer eating fermented crans in their honey to any cranberry sauce I’ve experienced.

Now, if you’re with me on this, you need to get to the farmers market or store today and dump them suckers into a jar. The one thing this recipe needs is time, and you’ve only got a few weeks until Thanksgiving (and about eight until Christmas)

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To: mylife

Sounds like a nice life-hack.


41 posted on 11/05/2021 1:54:17 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: mylife

You can also bake strawberrys!

200 degree oven, remove cores, place in cupcake tins upright to keep the juice inside, bake 30 min. Even bittersweet strawberries will taste like candy


42 posted on 11/05/2021 2:55:01 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: BrandtMichaels

Correction 30 min at 350 degrees

or

200 degrees for 1.5 to 2 hours.

How big of a hurry are you in? Also can cover in honey/vanilla for even better dessert.


43 posted on 11/05/2021 2:59:06 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: mylife

Rhubarb Brandy is amazing. Brought back bottles from Berlin a few years ago. Dickie Wirtin was the pub. Amazingly smooth.


44 posted on 11/05/2021 3:01:07 PM PDT by Solson (DeSantis/Hawley 2024!)
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To: Solson

Yom


45 posted on 11/05/2021 4:33:57 PM PDT by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
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To: mylife

Ok I’ll try anything once (WITHIN REASON!). This recipe is a hot mess. Recommend layering. A few cranberries, some honey. Repeat till full. I followed directions and packed the jar full of cranberries and now the honey is sitting on top and it will take days before it will ooze to the bottom of the jar. I tried warming the honey a smidge, but don’t want to risk getting it too hot and ruining the process. It may take til Christmas to pack the jar. Just sayin’


46 posted on 11/05/2021 4:51:01 PM PDT by SFmom
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To: SFmom

Here’s my poem, honey!

Honey makes the bitter sweet,
never degrades in cold nor heat,
builds immunity to colds sinus and flu,
yet truly only a little drop will do.

Manuka is the best made from tea trees,
healing abounds in anything made by bees,
try some bee pollen sometimes too,
and it may make a better stronger you.

-Inspired by Dr. Seuss and Proverbs 25:16


47 posted on 11/05/2021 8:08:30 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: SFmom

So I also have a little bit more to share about honey, honey.

Perhaps you’d not heard about the story where archaeologists had found some 2,000 year old honey sealed in jars and they found if was just as efficacious as fresh honey.

There was another time where I drank 1 small bottle of bad water from an infected well. That night my stomach ached so bad it woke me from a deep sleep. At 1st I thought maybe appendicitis but after checking a few med websites I found 2 things:

1) appendix is on the right side of the body, but my acute pain was on the left side.
2) stomach pain is the most common cause of emergency room trips.

Well I remembered my sister had gone in to the hospital for similar pain and they had kept her there 2 weeks trying to resolve the problem. No way I could afford that so I started looking through my OTC meds and realized I had bought some bee pollen but had barely used it. So I researched that on the web too. Took some for what I now suspected was diverticulitis from the bad water and the pain began to subside and I was back to a deep sleep with a few hours.

Now I often add some too my eggs in the morning, added it to my italian seasoning grinder to hide the taste. I couldn’t find the website from 2 years ago but here’s another listing of other honey benefits:

https://healthyy.net/superfoods/health-benefits-of-bee-pollen


48 posted on 11/05/2021 8:31:21 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: mylife

Reminder bump - Thanks. ;-)


49 posted on 11/05/2021 8:52:35 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ; - )
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To: Tunehead54

enjoy


50 posted on 11/05/2021 8:54:56 PM PDT by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
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To: RideForever

Why isn’t this a risk of growing Clostridium botulinum?


51 posted on 11/05/2021 9:36:45 PM PDT by AnonymousConservative (DO NOT send me sensitive information, I am under domestic surv coverage, and they will see it too.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
The bacteria for the fermentation comes from the raw honey.

Yeast performs the fermentation. It's in the air. It's on the surface of most things. It's everywhere. As long as you do not kill the yeast, e.g. heating, you can add water or a brine solution to just about anything organic and it will ferment. Sometimes it helps to add sugar or honey to feed the yeast. Once fermentation starts, air becomes the enemy as it contains bad bacteria and molds. An airlock on a fermentation vessel allows CO2 from the fermentation to force air from the vessel and stop any new air from getting into the vessel.

52 posted on 11/06/2021 7:35:34 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: mylife

I am trying this…this weekend


53 posted on 11/06/2021 7:51:25 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

You’ll need weeks...


54 posted on 11/06/2021 9:02:45 AM PDT by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
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To: mylife

Yes, I read it. I’m going to start it this weekend.


55 posted on 11/06/2021 10:25:54 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Hope it turns out well.


56 posted on 11/06/2021 11:05:26 AM PDT by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
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