Storing a Basic Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Video Transcript

"I'm Stephanie Barnett on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to make Christmas Cranberry Sauce. Oh, that smells good. So now that your cranberry sauce has cooled down I want to talk to you about storage and consistency. You need to put a lid on it. Otherwise, a thin skin will form on top of it. So you can put saran wrap on the top. My glass containers have a lid that go on them. But you want to make sure that there is some sort of protection over it. Do not use aluminum foil. You can use wax paper or saran wrap or if you have a lid for your container use that. You want to put it in the refrigerator and you want it to stay there for at least two to three hours. This can be made a couple days ahead of your Christmas dinner or your Christmas party. You need to have it in the refrigerator for that amount of time, at least a couple hours, because you want everything to firm up. There's pectin in the cranberries and that's what makes it the jelly-like consistency. And it needs to cool down to achieve that. So let?s put our cranberries in the refrigerator."