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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Sounds like a nice life-hack.
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
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.
Rhubarb Brandy is amazing. Brought back bottles from Berlin a few years ago. Dickie Wirtin was the pub. Amazingly smooth.
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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’
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
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
Reminder bump - Thanks. ;-)
enjoy
Why isn’t this a risk of growing Clostridium botulinum?
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.
I am trying this…this weekend
You’ll need weeks...
Yes, I read it. I’m going to start it this weekend.
Hope it turns out well.
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