How to Make Miss Hamlin's Raw Cranberry Sauce

Why eat cooked cranberry sauce when you can have the best tasting raw apple sauce. I had ten people test the taste of this cranberry sauce, and everyone that tasted it love the flavor.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 12 ounces of organic cranberries
• 4 organic apples [remember 2 apples are cut up into chunks]
• 1 cup Of raisins
• food processor

1. Obtain One Cup Of Raisins I obtain my raisins from my local heath food store in their bulk section. I bought 1/2 pound of organic Thompson Raisins.
2. Obtain Twelve Ounces of Organic Cranberries The recipe calls for twelve ounces of Cranberries, approx. three cups. At the health food store where I bought these cranberries they only sold cranberries in pint container, not the usual twelve ounce bag, so you will be using one and a half pints, or three cups.
3. Obtain Four Organic Apples This apples are off our organic apple tree.
4. Hand Tools I Used These are the hand tools I used to make the raw apple sauce: apple slicer, food chopper, peeler.
5. Soak Raisins In Water In Alissa's recipe she doesn't say how long to soak. As I said above, I am using organic Thompson Raisins and the are really soft already, and they probibly didn't need soaking, but I soaked them a half an hour. If you use hard raisins then you are going to need to soak yours until they're soft.
6. Peel Apples I used a regular potato peeler to peel the apples. I'm not that good with a paring knife.
7. Core and Slice Apples I really like using a Apple Slice to core and slice apples. It makes the job easy. Split the apples up it to two piles, half to be used as the basic raw sauce and half is chopped up and folded into the sauce after it has been blended.
8. Chop Half of the Cored and Sliced Apples Take half of the cored and sliced apples and chop them into smaller pieces. The size of the chopped pieces is up to you. I like smaller pieces.
9. Time to Make The Apple Sauce. Okay, we now have everything we need to make the raw cranberry sauce. On the left side of the food processor are the chopped apples and the soaked raisin that we will be fold in the raw apple sauce. On the right are the cranberries and sliced apples we are making the basic apple sauce out of.
10. Cranberries and Apple Slices Put the cranberries and apple slices into the food processor...
11. Blend Cranberries and Apple Slices Blend cranberries and apple slices until the mix is smooth, if it is too thick for you, you can add some of the raisin soak water, a little at a time. If it is too thin, you can try adding another part of an apple.
    
    NOTE: If you want the cranberry mix even smoother, put the mix into a blender or Vita-Mix.
12. Close Up of Blended Mix of Cranberries and Apples Here is a close up of the blended mix of cranberries and apples that I decided was ready to use.
13. Pour Cranberry Mix into a Mixing Bowl Pour cranberry mix into a mixing bowl, so that you can fold in the raisins and chopped apples into the cranberry mix.
    
    NOTE: This cranberry mix is tart, when you first make it, but after it sits in the refrigerator for a few hours it seems to mellow out as far as tartness. So, it might be a good idea for you to wait a while before you think of adding your favorite sweetener.
14. Fold Raisins into Cranberry Mix Put The raisins into the mixing bowl and throughly mix the raisins with the cranberry sauce.
15. Fold Chopped Apples into Cranberry Mix Put The chopped apples into the mixing bowl and throughly mix the apples with the cranberry sauce.
16. The Finished Cranberry Sauce Our canberry sauce is now completed. We are ready now to place it on the table or store it for later use.
17. Store Cranberry Sauce in Mason Jar I am beginning more and more to store in glass containers. I believe if you store this canberry sauce in a plastic container that it would stain the container. If it can stain a container, what can also be leeched out of the plastic in to the cranberry sauce. I think it is safer to use glass.
18. Ready to Garnish and place on table. The cranberry sauce is now ready to garnish and place on the table.
    
    NOTE: If you had the cranberry sauce stored in the refrigerator and you feel it is too thick, just add a little water.