Cranberry sauce is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries. For the computer protocol, see SAUCE In cooking, a sauce is a liquid or sometimes solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. ... For other uses, see Relish (disambiguation). ... Species Vaccinium erythrocarpum Vaccinium macrocarpon Vaccinium microcarpum Vaccinium oxycoccus Approximate ranges of the cranberries in sect. ...

The most basic cranberry sauce consists of cranberries boiled in sugar water until the berries' skins pop and the mixture thickens. Some recipes include other ingredients such as orange juice or zest and flavorings such as cinnamon. Magnification of typical sugar showing monoclinic hemihedral crystalline stucture. ... Orange Juice was a Scottish post punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976, becoming Orange Juice in 1979. ... Zest is the outer, colored shell of citrus fruit and is often used for baking. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum verum J.Presl Cassia (Indonesian cinnamon) is also commonly called (and sometimes sold as) cinnamon. ...

Cranberry sauce is often eaten in conjunction with turkey for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner in the US, and it is only rarely eaten in other contexts. Despite being called a sauce, cranberry sauce is most often consumed as a food itself, not as a garnish for other food items. Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that marks the traditional birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth. ... Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. ...

Commercial cranberry sauce may be condensed or jellied and thus shaped like a cylinder due to the shape of steel cans that often contain the sauce, or it may be loose and uncondensed. Some commercial brands of cranberry sauce may not be appropriate for vegetarians as they may contain gelatin. Look up jelly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ... Gelatin (also gelatine) is a translucent brittle solid substance, colorless or slightly yellow, nearly tasteless and odorless, which is created by prolonged boiling of animal skin, connective tissue or bones. ...

Cranberry Trivia

John Lennon repeated the words Cranberry sauce at the end of the song Strawberry Fields Forever, a fact that Lennon confirmed in a 1980 interview. He stated it was a kind of icing on the cake of the weirdness of song, where anything he might have imagined saying would have been appropriate. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Strawberry Fields Forever is the title of a 1967 song recorded by The Beatles. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Comedian Neil Hamburger, performing to hostile crowds on Tenacious D's 2006 world tour, would not leave the stage of large venues such as Madison Square Garden until he had gotten the entire audience to chant the phrase cranberry sauce several times. Neil Hamburger next to Yoko Ono on The Jimmy Kimmel Show Neil Hamburger is the name of a stand-up comedian character played by Gregg Turkington. ... Tenacious D are an American rock band composed of musician/actors Kyle Gass (a. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ...

External links

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