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Tuesday, November 26. 2013

Cranberry Season, and the Heart

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As a native Cape Codder and cranberry fan, it's a delight to report that they may have a powerful anti-atheroscletotic effect. Maybe this news might have a beneficial effect on a specialized family farming that has been bedeviled by low prices.


The big producers are Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon and Michigan.


The sentence in Science Daily I don't understand is the following: "The researchers said that the next step is to determine which compounds in cranberries contribute to the benefits and then figure out how to incorporate them into the diet in a form palatable to humans."  How about in cranberry juice, cranberry muffins, cranberry pancakes, 25 kinds of cranberry sauce, cranberry cobbler, and dried cranberry "raisins,"....for starters? You can buy unsweetened, undiluted cranberry juice now in most supermarkets.


We keep bags of them in the freezer, and they seem to last a year.


Cranberry sauce: it's not just for Thanksgiving turkey. It's good for chicken and almost any kind of game meat. Never use the junk from the can, though. Even if you think you like it, you will find you like the home-made better.


More on this native North American bog plant here.

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You forgot my favorite: the Cape Codder - vodka and cranberry juice.
#1 Roy Lofquist on 2005-11-21 10:24 (Reply)
so sorry - a favorite drink for those trying to conceal the fact that they are boozing
#2 bird dog on 2005-11-21 10:56 (Reply)
Roy,

There are multiple benefits to the Cape Codder.
#3 Knucklhead (Link) on 2006-11-17 11:52 (Reply)
The folks behind the cooking kiosk at my favorite market just handed me something they call a compote;intended to replace cranberry's role.. Do you have a good recipe for Cranberry relish?
#4 apple pie on 2006-11-18 12:15 (Reply)
You can make glass out of cranberries, too.

I don't see the Bob and Ray for it but here's the Four Leaf Clover Farm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANGnBFRLuc&feature=related
#5 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2007-11-18 09:30 (Reply)
Cranberries are a big part of Southern cooking too, And we fully understand the heat benefits.

Our typical breakfast could be a great big ole white biscuit smothered in white gravy. Ya follow that up with two over easy eggs and grits, with five strips of bacon, and a small glass of cranberry juice.

For dinner we might have a pork roast, with black eyed peas, cornbread, green beans and corn on the cob, fried okra, and stewed tomatoes, with a cranberry-pineapple chillled jello.

Supper brings on some baby back ribs with deep fried onion rings, cole slaw, fried chicken,mashed potatos and gravy,cornbread, stuffing, and if you're lucky some pig snout. A small glass of cranberry juice.

All the benefits of that great little berry!

One of my granddaddy's use to like a small snack between dinner and supper. He'd take a stick of butter and cover it with karo syrup and eat 'er up...umm good.
#6 Habu on 2007-11-18 11:30 (Reply)
I put dried cranberries and dried blueberries into my morning oatmeal most every day. And I drink cranberry juice mixed w/'crystal light' lemonade (which is full of potassium citrate) to help prevent kidney stones. Once you've had one kidney stone you'll find yourself doing a lot of odd things trying to prevent another.
#7 Carl H. (Link) on 2007-11-18 13:14 (Reply)
Colorado Springs, CO.

12 oz. bag of Cranberries is $2.00, at closest market.

64 oz. container Cranberry juice $2.00.
#8 Leag on 2007-11-18 13:48 (Reply)
I can't fine cranberry juice--that is juice where "cranberry juice" is the first item on the list, and there are no items after about three.
#8.1 Larry Sheldon on 2013-11-27 03:08 (Reply)
I don't get the fascination with cranberries up in this area. I'm not especially fond of them.

Of course, the Wymans always were more pahtial t' blueberries anyway.
#9 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2007-11-18 16:22 (Reply)
Work on it!
#9.1 BD on 2007-11-18 17:00 (Reply)
Cranberry juice is an old-wives prescription for curing cystitis, folks. It's very effective, and a lot cheaper than most medicine. When my husband used to go off on his freelance assignments, he used to pack boxes of condensed cranberry juice in his luggage. And they worked when he was in the wilds of rural Brazil, Argentina, Azerbaijan and other exotic destinations. It works here at home, too,and keeps you out of the clutches of the soon-to-be universal health care services, which your beneficent, soon-to-be all-powerful Government is going to inflict on us, willy-nilly.

All of which is a powerful argument for you all to keep on the good side of us old wives. We're cheaper, and smarter, and better at what we do.

Marianne
#10 Marianne Matthews on 2008-11-15 16:22 (Reply)
Ben Franklin listed 8 reasons why, if one is inclined to take a lover, a more mature lady is the wisest choice. I wonder if he offered similar advice for those inclined to marriage. Well, whatever the answer may be, I can say his proposal for a choice of mistress coincides with MM's conclusion: "We're cheaper, and smarter, and better at what we do."

So you heard the lady, drink your cranberry juice. (It's a natural diuretic you know).
#11 Jephnol (Link) on 2008-11-15 17:17 (Reply)
Thank you, dear Jephnol. We old ladies don't get praised as often as we did when we were young and [fairly] luscious. And as the wise Mr. Franklin said in his encomium about older women, we generally decay from the top down.

Marianne
#12 Marianne Matthews on 2008-11-15 18:00 (Reply)
Considering my love for all things American I have never been able to aquire a taste for cranberries...I shall try again.
#13 thud (Link) on 2008-11-15 19:21 (Reply)
Twinge of Gout, three glasses of unsweetened cranberry juice. Pee, repeat.
#14 John on 2008-11-15 22:09 (Reply)
Jeph,

If you're going to mention an American classic, such as Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress, you simply must provide a URL also:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html

Ben was a remarkable man.
#15 Knucklehead (Link) on 2008-11-16 21:19 (Reply)
Many may not be aware that the cranberry is not exclusively American. It and its variants occur throughout the northern hemishpere and is popular under other names, such as fenberry in England or lingonberry in Scandinavia and across Eurasia.
My favorite recipe is one some might like.
1/2 cup frozen cranberries (I prefer the tiny little ones I pick out of the boreal forestsd in Alaska's interior, and presumably the same can be found anywhere there are mossy forests in cool climates)
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
Place together in a mug or bowl and microwave until it rises up (30 seconds or so) hot and syrupy (it will run over the container if you don't keep an eye on it)...it is tart and chocolatey and excellent on vanilla ice cream or on oatmeal! Caution, its taste and healty-ness is adictive.
#16 Doug l on 2008-11-17 18:21 (Reply)
Please re-post your great cranberry sauce recipes from last year!
#17 Scott Slater on 2013-11-27 09:00 (Reply)
Cranberries are tasty and make a great relish but as medicine I suspect that is pure baloney. Do they really prevent arteriosclerotic vascular disease or was this simply a statistical anomoly in some pimply faced PhD candidates study? If so how much do I take? Will it cure as well as prevent? Will it wipe arteriosclerosis out if we all take cranberries as medicine? Will it cure cancer too?
#18 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-11-27 12:32 (Reply)

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