Cranberry Sours Recipes

CRANBERRY SOURS

Steps:

• Put the cranberries, liqueurs, orange and lime juices and the maple syrup into a food processor or blender. Blitz until the berries are as finely chopped as possible.
• Strain through a fine sieve, working the cranberry pulp against the mesh with a spatula or small ladle until you have extracted all of the liquid. Chill until needed. When ready to serve, fill small glasses with crushed ice, then pour over the almost fluorescent pink cocktail.

PERFECT CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Empty a 12-ounce bag of fresh or frozen cranberries into a saucepan and transfer 1/2 cup to a small bowl. Add 1 cup sugar, 1 strip orange or lemon zest and 2 tablespoons water to the pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves and the cranberries are soft, about 10 minutes. Increase the heat to medium and cook until the cranberries burst, about 12 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and stir in the reserved cranberries. Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste and cool to room temperature before serving.

SOUR CREAM-CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Generously grease bottom only of 9x5-inch loaf pan with shortening or cooking spray.
• In medium bowl, stir all bread ingredients except cranberries with fork or whisk until moistened. Stir in cranberries. Pour into pan.
• Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and top crust is deep golden brown. Cool 15 minutes. Loosen sides of loaf from pan; remove from pan and place top side up on cooling rack. Cool completely before slicing, about 2 hours. Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days, or refrigerate.
• In small bowl, stir glaze ingredients until smooth and thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over bread just before serving.

CRANBERRY SOUR CREAM KUCHEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch springform pan.
• Beat 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl using an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating in the first egg thoroughly before adding the second. Whisk 2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a separate bowl; beat flour mixture into creamed butter mixture in several increments, alternating with sour cream, to make a batter.
• Spread half the batter in the prepared pan. Combine cranberries with 1/4 cup white sugar in a bowl and spread the cranberries over batter; top with remaining batter. Stir brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, almonds, 1 tablespoon butter, and cinnamon together in a bowl until the topping looks like crumbs. Sprinkle topping evenly over cake.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the cake is lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with moist crumbs, 50 to 55 minutes.

SOUR CREAM-CRANBERRY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine oats and flour for crust in a bowl. Set aside 1 1/2 cups of oat-flour mixture for topping.
• Cream butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add remaining oat-flour mixture; mix until blended. Press into an ungreased 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven.
• Prepare filling: Combine cranberries, sour cream, sugar, egg, flour, lemon zest, and vanilla in a large bowl. Spread evenly over the crust sprinkle reserved oat-flour mixture over top.
• Return to the oven and bake until lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack, 30 to 45 minutes. Cut into 36 bars.

CRANBERRY SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix brown sugar and cornstarch together in a medium sauce pan.
• Stir in cranberry sauce, pineapple juice, vinegar, and soy sauce.
• Cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring often.
• Bring to a boil and boil for one minute, stirring constantly.
• Serve over meatballs, chicken, roast pork, stir fried meats or vegetables.
• Makes about 8 cups.

SOUR CREAM CRANBERRY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Combine oats and 1-1/2 cups flour; add to the creamed mixture until blended. Set aside 1-1/2 cups for topping. , Press remaining crumb mixture into an ungreased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned., Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the cranberries, sour cream, sugar, egg, lemon peel, vanilla and remaining flour. Spread evenly over crust. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. , Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.

CRANBERRY SOUP

Steps:

• In a heavy soup kettle, melt the butter. Gently saute the chopped onions, celery and carrots until the vegetables are soft. Add the chicken broth. Rinse the hot pepper under running water to remove the seeds and inner white membrane. Add to the broth, together with the bay leaf and several grinds of pepper.
• Rinse the cranberries and pick them over to remove any that are spoiled. Roughly chop the berries on a wooden board or process them briefly in a food processor. Add to the broth and let simmer gently over low heat until the cranberries are soft and disintegrating into the broth.
• Add the cider to the broth. Mix well and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Serve hot, garnished with sour cream if desired. The soup may also be prepared ahead of time and reheated before serving.

CRANBERRY SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sprinkle 1/4 cup chopped almonds on the bottom of a greased 9" springform pan or 10" tube pan; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the remaining almonds with the rest of the topping ingredients until crumbly; set aside.
• In a large mixer bowl, combine sugar, butter and vanilla.
• Beat at medium speed, scraping the bowl often, until creamy (1 to 2 minutes.).
• Add the eggs; continue beating, scraping often, until well mixed (1 to 2 minutes.).
• Continue beating, adding the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt alternately with the sour cream, until well mixed (1 to 2 minutes.).
• Spoon half of the batter into the prepared pan; spread to cover the bottom.
• Spread the cranberry sauce over the batter; spread to the edges.
• Spread the remaining batter over the cranberry sauce to cover.
• Sprinkle the topping over the batter.
• Bake for 70 to 85 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes; remove the sides of the pan.

SOUR CREAM AND CRANBERRY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In top of a double boiler or a metal bowl over simmering water, whisk the first 5 ingredients until blended; stir in cranberries. Cook and stir until mixture is thickened, 15-20 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla., Meanwhile, in a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, oats, salt and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in coconut. Reserve half of the dough for topping. Press remainder onto bottom of a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake until set, 8-10 minutes., Spread sour cream mixture over crust; crumble reserved dough over top. Bake until filling is set and top is golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.