[chrissie B]

does anyone know anything about cranberrys .
sone time ago i got some freash cranberrys from our local market and we soaked them in sugar and alchol to make a drink , now having still the cranberrys thought i would make some sauce but find a pip in the middle thats hard to get out , do cranberrys have large pips never bought freash ones before .
chrissie b

[gobs]

There don't seem to be many takers. I haven't had them fresh for a long while, Chrissie, but I don't remember any large pips. Most berry fruit is full of seeds, there won't be any left if we pipped them.

[Ice]

There are no pips in cranberries.  For a very basic sauce use:-
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
4 cups fresh cranberries
Heat in saucepan until cranberries burst and the sugar is dissolved.   You can add loads of other things.  Orange peel, nuts, raisins, other berries, booze etc.  Cranberries have lots of pectin and will thicken on cooling.
Luvverly.

[WG.]

Well they must have seeds of some kind, otherwise the species would soon die out.  Google turned up this : http://www.hort.wisc.edu/cran/mgt_articles/articles_gen_info/Vaccinium_Viburnum.html which shows varieties with many small or one large pip.  It also suggests that we really mean lingonberries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingonberry

Confused?  I certainly am.

[DD.]

They do have pips. Daughter made some fresh cranberry sauce a few years back. There were some unused ones. I actually managed to get the seed to germinate.

Reading up on the type of soil they grow in, I made a bog after digging a hole and lining it with an old compost bag. I made the mistake of putting it too close to an elder tree on our plot. The chap who has permission to harvest the elders trampled all over the plants & killed them. :cry:  :cry:

[gobs]

Of course they have seeds, ( :roll: ) but you don't get large pips though, do you?

[Ice]

Of course they have seeds, ( :roll: ) but you don't get large pips though, do you?

Of course you don't gobs, it's just the boys making something out of nothing. :roll:

[gobs]

Yes, I would guess so, but then Chrissie might have something else than cranberries, possible. :?:

[Ice]

Yes, I would guess so, but then Chrissie might have something else than cranberries, possible. :?:

Possible

[gobs]

Is it passable, though?

[chrissie B]

thanks for all the help , im thinking there must be more than one type .
i stood in the kitchen for ages boilin , mashing ,squeezing through a sieve and all i got for my pains was a load of pips and mush ,the flesh just would not come off clean so we got in the end 2 cups of juice and a bin full of pips.
chrissie b

[Selkie]

could you make cranberry jelly from them?

[gobs]

I understand (?) the one we get in the shops here is the American cranberry, but be careful Chrissie, you might be pipping gooseberries and currants next at this rate. :roll:  

[WG.]

I understand (?) the one we get in the shops here is the American cranberry

I'm glad somebody bothered to read the links above  :roll:  

[gobs]

You can count on me, but still don't know, what Chrissie has got. :?