Cranberry

Canneberge

What it is

Harvested by flooding the bog and beating the fruit loose — each berry has four internal air chambers that float it to the surface. A ripe one bounces, and growers once graded them by dropping them down wooden steps.

In the kitchen

Stop cooking as soon as they pop. Past that the skins break down and the pectin that would have set the sauce is destroyed.

Goes with

Orange Cinnamon Clove Turkey Honey Walnut Ginger Maple syrup

Same species

Lingonberry Blueberry Dried cranberry Wild bilberry

Also used with

Hind Bison Blue Stilton Wild rice

In season alongside

Damson Grapefruit Jabuticaba Kiwi Physalis Sloe

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