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Everyone loves traditional cranberry sauce for their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner tables. This can also make a nice gift to give. You can jar these up in pint jars, as I am doing in this video, but half-pint and 4 oz. jars also make nice options. Where I live, the processing time is 15 minutes. The National Center for Home Food Preservation has a chart that will tell you the exact time you need to process cranberry sauce based on your elevation. Here is a link to the steam canner in this video: https://amzn.to/3m20XWP (affiliate) INGREDIENTS 12 cups cranberries 6 cups water 6 cups sugar OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS - Butter (up to 1 teaspoon to reduce foaming) - Spices (Use any of your favorite spices sparingly and only choose a combination you feel confident would work well with cranberries.) - Orange juice (Some people might substitute a small amount of the water for orange juice to create an Orange Cranberry sauce. Additonally, you can add some orange zest.) In this video, I'm using a dash of each of the following: - Nutmeg - Cloves - Cinnamon This recipe makes about 6 pint jars. You may have enough left over for one half-pint jar. To determine your own amount, just use a 2:1:1 ratio of cranberries to sugar to water. So if you decide to make 8 half-pints of cranberry sauce (4 pints), you would just need 8 cups of cranberries, 4 cups of sugar, and 4 cups of water.

Everyone loves traditional cranberry sauce for their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner tables. This can also make a nice gift to give. You can jar these up in pint jars, as I am doing in this video, but half-pint and 4 oz. jars also make nice options.

Where I live, the processing time is 15 minutes. The National Center for Home Food Preservation has a chart that will tell you the exact time you need to process cranberry sauce based on your elevation.

Here is a link to the steam canner in this video: https://amzn.to/3m20XWP
(affiliate)

INGREDIENTS

12 cups cranberries
6 cups water
6 cups sugar

OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS

- Butter (up to 1 teaspoon to reduce foaming)
- Spices (Use any of your favorite spices sparingly and only choose a combination you feel confident would work well with cranberries.)
- Orange juice (Some people might substitute a small amount of the water for orange juice to create an Orange Cranberry sauce. Additonally, you can add some orange zest.)

In this video, I'm using a dash of each of the following:
- Nutmeg
- Cloves
- Cinnamon


This recipe makes about 6 pint jars. You may have enough left over for one half-pint jar.

To determine your own amount, just use a 2:1:1 ratio of cranberries to sugar to water.

So if you decide to make 8 half-pints of cranberry sauce (4 pints), you would just need 8 cups of cranberries, 4 cups of sugar, and 4 cups of water.

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Traditional Cranberry Sauce - An old-time favorite for the holidays & gift giving!

This is the first video in the new Holiday Series, focusing on tasty, traditional foods that you can prepare and serve at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. We love to eat Hot Pepper Jelly with cream cheese and Ritz Crackers as an hors d'oeuvre over the holidays, but it can also be used as a tasty way to dress up chicken or pork. Here is a link to the steam canner in this video: https://amzn.to/3m20XWP (affiliate) INGREDIENTS 4 1/2 cups finely chopped bell peppers 1/2 cup chopped jalapeños (remove seeds if you don't want it too spicy) 1 1/4 cups apple cider vinegar 1 1/2 packages Sure-Jell 5 cups sugar This recipe makes about a dozen 4 oz. jars or 6 half-pint jars.

This is the first video in the new Holiday Series, focusing on tasty, traditional foods that you can prepare and serve at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. We love to eat Hot Pepper Jelly with cream cheese and Ritz Crackers as an hors d'oeuvre over the holidays, but it can also be used as a tasty way to dress up chicken or pork.

Here is a link to the steam canner in this video: https://amzn.to/3m20XWP
(affiliate)

INGREDIENTS

4 1/2 cups finely chopped bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped jalapeños (remove seeds if you don't want it too spicy)
1 1/4 cups apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 packages Sure-Jell
5 cups sugar

This recipe makes about a dozen 4 oz. jars or 6 half-pint jars.

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Hot Pepper Jelly - Great with cream cheese & Ritz Crackers at Christmas or New Year's!

This is an old-fashioned slow cooker recipe for delicious apple butter – a cozy taste of autumn! This recipe makes seven half-pint (8 oz.) jelly jars of apple butter. Here is a link to the steam canner in the video: https://amzn.to/3lS8Xd2 (Amazon affiliate link) INGREDIENTS: * 6 lbs of apples, cored and sliced (I used Fuji. The smaller the pieces you start with, the quicker they will cook!) * 2 cups white sugar (You can use all white sugar if you prefer, but I don't think I would use all brown sugar.) * 2 cups brown sugar * 1 Tbsp. cinnamon * 1 tsp. nutmeg * 1/2 tsp. ground cloves * 1/2 tsp. salt * ~ 1/8 tsp. allspice Thanks for watching!

This is an old-fashioned slow cooker recipe for delicious apple butter – a cozy taste of autumn! This recipe makes seven half-pint (8 oz.) jelly jars of apple butter.

Here is a link to the steam canner in the video: https://amzn.to/3lS8Xd2
(Amazon affiliate link)

INGREDIENTS:

* 6 lbs of apples, cored and sliced (I used Fuji. The smaller the pieces you start with, the quicker they will cook!)
* 2 cups white sugar (You can use all white sugar if you prefer, but I don't think I would use all brown sugar.)
* 2 cups brown sugar
* 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
* 1 tsp. nutmeg
* 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
* 1/2 tsp. salt
* ~ 1/8 tsp. allspice

Thanks for watching!

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Slow Cooker Apple Butter - A Crocktober Cozy Taste of Autumn!

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