Cranberry Sauce Homemade with Honey
Author: Mike James
You cannot have a Thanksgiving dinner without the staple cranberry sauce on the dinner table, or wherever else you eat your Thanksgiving dinner. This cranberry sauce homemade with honey, will not only give you pride over a sauce that didn't come out of can, but will please the taste buds of your guests.

Naturally Sweetened Cranberry Sauce
Homemade Cranberry Sauce Ingredients
When shopping for the cranberry sauce ingredients, I recommend finding the freshest cranberry's you can and focus on ripeness of those cranberry's as well as the orange(s). And as always, a high quality honey can go a long way and is great for topping your other dishes for Thanksgiving, like your yams.

Ingredients-
- 1 Bag- Fresh Cranberries
- Local Wildflower Honey
- Water
- Zest from Orange
- Orange
- Cinnamon Sticks
- Rosemary Sprig (for garnish)
You will also need a large pot to boil the ingredients in. And that's really it, this is a simple recipe and easy to prepare. Once you make this one, you'll wonder why you'd ever buy it again.
How to Make the Cranberry Sauce
Are you ready for this....., throw all of it in a pot and boil it. Done.
Well, its almost that easy, combine the cranberries, cinnamon stick, honey, and water to a large pot and boil it while mixing until the cranberries have broken open and mixture has thickened to your liking, about 5 to 10 minutes.
Remove the pot from heat and stir in the orange zest. If you’d like to add orange juice, add it now. Taste and if the mixture is too tart (keeping in mind that cranberry sauce is supposed to be a little tart!), add more orange juice and honey to the sauce.
I then like to finish the sauce up by pouring it into glass jars with flip lids to cool in the refrigerator, after adding a sprig of rosemary and a little zest of orange. I use 16 oz jars as this recipe is for one jar, and I will normally make 3-4 jars. So I will triple or quadruple the recipe.
Cranberry Sauce Naturally vs. Conventionally Sweetened
If you pick up a can of cranberry sauce at the grocery store and glanced at the list, you'll see— cranberries, followed by high fructose corn syrup, and that’s about it. High fructose corn syrup is heavily processed, flavorless sweet stuff that is often difficult to avoid, and I will try to avoid the stuff if I can.
Most homemade versions call for about a cup of white sugar. You can substitute most recipes with half the amount in honey. So a 1/2 cup of honey is equal to 1 cup sugar.
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