Rickochet I like Ocean Spray cranberry sauce about once per year on turkey day. My MIL was a great cook and would fix enough food on Thanksgiving to feed a marching band. One thing I hated was her cranberry salad that had the crushed cranberries in it. I know it took a lot of work so I would take at least one bite and while grimacing with it in my mouth mutter, "Oh, this is so good" then moosh the rest on my plate around to look like I ate more.
Ocean Spray is good. I think you would've liked my grandfathers cranberry sauce, thus Williams and Sonoma's New England style. Unless it's a texture thing you don't like.
Watching him make it I was amazed at how much sugar he put in with the cranberries and oranges. Working cranberry bogs used to be all over the Cape. Not sure how many there are now.
Most of the cranberry harvesting is a wet harvest where they flood the bogs and use machines to knock the berries from the vines. A small percentage is dry harvesting.
Years ago they'd use cranberry scoops you'd use by hand. They use antique ones for decoration or for holding magazines etc.. I have an old one.
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Massachusetts used to be a big producer of cranberries. I think a lot of cranberries come from Wisconsin these days. If anyone is ever up on Cape Cod I'd recommend playing golf at Cranberry Valley in Harwich. Great town owned course.
I remember when it was built back in the early 70's they had a contest to name the new course. Cranberry Valley was the winner. Very appropriate.