Founding Father Food - Cranberries?
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2023
- Cranberries are a surprising food to find used frequently in our time period. It seems that in the Americas, they just always were. They were plentiful and natural, so we used them, and somehow cranberries have become a staple food to accompany our favorite roasted fowl.
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I'm a cranberry grower!
Maine Cranberries used to be shipped to Cuba and the ships would bring molasses back to New England
Thank you for your service! I love cranberries. 🥰
Sounds like triangle trade
Thank you!!
Triangle Trade isn't necessarily insidious but there is certainly one that was
@@spurgear bilateral trade sounds like a triangle?
One fun thing about cranberry farming is that, after they have flooded the cranberry bogs to harvest the cranberries, farmers would often leave the bog flooded over the winter. This made a wonderful artificial pond that you could skate on during the winter, and the relative shallowness of the bog meant that they froze a little faster and (in the unfortunate circumstance that you misgauged how frozen the bog was) it was relatively easy to get out of, compared to a pond.
my grandfather told me stories of dried, compressed cranberries in the shape of a brick called "crannies" being shipped to soldiers in europe during WW2. the cook would slice off a piece, put it in your canteen cup full of hot water, and you'd add sugar as you wanted.
he seemed to think that the whole idea of "crannie' bricks being a much older way to ship them.
That sounds super interesting. So they basically had cranberry tea. I wonder if they had it because of the vitamin c content
@@agimagi2158 it might have been for the vitamin C content. the soldiers thought of it as a nice fruit drink when coffee was unavailable or you've had it every day for the last year. a nice change, and shelf-stable and easy to ship.
I just wish I could find some..I'd love to put a few bricks of crannies in my foodstorage, maybe modern vacuum-packed for even longer life...
Dried fruit has obviously existed throughout the ages, however, my guess is that back then it was far more difficult to dry fruit consistently at a good success rate and large scale. That might be the reason why we do not see "crannie" bricks way back when. Just a guess though =)
I'm an Ecologist and have had the pleasure of working for several seasons in a Bog on the west coast now, i can absolutely confirm that on the vine, Cranberries can last perfectly well for 1+ year and that during springtime (staying on the vine over winter) they really are at their peak.
Long beach WA?
Ocean Spray? My mom lives in Grayland.
Incredible! Thank you so much for sharing that first hand experience (and thank you for everything you do as an ecologist, truly appreciated).
Homemade cranberry tart with candied orange peels and zest is one of my faves. Glad to see it be represented
My grandmother made thanksgiving cranberry sauce by running cranberries, oranges, and sugar through a meat grinder. If I could time travel, I would go to one of my family's late 1960s Thanksgiving dinners in Lena, Illinois. With a side of corn casserole. I guess it was more of a relish than a sauce, but my family called it a sauce
I will happily await another cranberry video two years from now, where you show us how well your preserved cranberries withstood the passage of time. 😊
This! Time for an experiment. Get 10 jars, seal them up and open them every couple months.
@@jefffreeman8905 or just get craisins
worst that could happen is they ferment and turn into some sort of booze. That's terrible!
@@cleanerben9636 I'm afraid berries would need more sugar to make any sort of decent booze. But one can always make cranberry tincture by soaking berries in high-grade alcohol.
@@FrikInCasualModewhat benefits would a cranberry tincture have?
New Jersey it's still called the Garden State although it isn't home to anywhere near as many farms as it used to be. Not even my childhood 4-H leader's dairy farm is still there. She sold it off years ago and it's now covered with McMansions, and her 19th century farmhouse has been remodeled according to someone's modern tastes.
But one thing the state is still known for growing is cranberries. The sandy, peaty bogs of the Pine Barrens provide perfect growing conditions, and since it IS so boggy the area will never be heavily developed.
Plus a large part of the Pine Barrens in south Jersey is now protected by Federal and State law. Used to skate on the frozen bogs in the winter.
I live in the Pine Barrens and just finished eating some cranberry sauce I made with our local berries!
My sister has a house in Egg harbor township, cranberries and blueberries grow wild there and they can out picking. Most of them are not the wild version… it’s from old farms from the 1800s that lived in the now woods near their house.
I grew up in south Jersey, going picking for berries is something we did EVERY year, and different times of the year to get different berries.
@@rachelann9362 My father, who just passed away a couple of months ago, lived in Egg Harbor Township, so I know it slightly. Wouldn't mind living there at all, myself.
As an anthropologist, I absolutely love your channel!!! I've shown your videos to students in the past. Being able to place yourself into the lives of our ancestors allows for understanding the past in ways books cannot! I do experimental archaeology.
Wisconsin girl here👋In high school both my twin brother and I got cranberry farmer on our “career tests”… I was so embarrassed and ashamed. Now as an adult I’m thinking dang…. We should have gone in on a cranberry farm together! What a fun job that would have been!
That’s the most Wisconsin career testing program I’ve ever heard. I bet it told everyone else to farm dairy or ginseng!
@@northerngothic my Grandmother grew up on a very large ginseng farm in Wisconsin actually😂
The wild cranberries here in Central Europe are much smaller and it takes forever to pick them. That’s why we don’t use them for a sauce, but make some sort of marmalade with it which we serve with game (venison, duck, pheasant) and certain cheeses. I always look forward to cranberry season and buy a lot of bags at the supermarket. I use them for cranberry relish, Christmas Marmelade and cranberry-orange pinwheel cookies.
Here in upper midwest, since its low fields they grow in; the farmers flood the fields and the buoyancy of the cranberry causes it to fall off and float to top of water...where they're harvested in big nets.
Its why I call my cranberry wine "Marsh Blood"
@@djdrack4681I‘ve seen that in a documentary about Ocean Spray. “Marsh Blood” sounds so much better than cranberry! Marsh blood jelly…😅
I just made homemade cranberry sauce for the first time this year and it was absolutely delicious. It required fresh orange juice and orange zest which really helped me decrease the sugar content. It was fabulous. The amazing thing was, it took 10 to 15 minutes on the stove and I didn't even have to cut the cranberries!
Wisconsin is mostly known as the dairy state but it produces the most cranberries. In 2020 it produced 59% of total crop. It is over 2 1/2 the next highest. Crasians has become quite popular not only on their own but in trail mix, and many baked items.
I am a Wisconsinite (so came here to say, essentially, this), but was surprised when I moved to Boston area for a time that Massachusetts is recently the second top producing state!
Do y’all have a big cranberry festival in Wisconsin, too?
Love cranberries! My favorite afternoon drink is half cranberry juice with half a can of flavored seltzer water.
I love cranberries. I buy fresh this time of year and freeze them to use all winter.
Cranberries with pheasant? Yes! Every year I make cranberry relish with oranges and mint. I just made pemmican with dried cranberries. Excellent!
I was preparing cranberries for my family's thanksgiving (eating a few tart cranberries raw) and while "preparing" I wondered if Townsends had an historical video about cranberries, so I discovered this.
After I watched you making that cranberry tart it got me to thinking........
Cranberry Cheesecake?!.....😮
it's delicious btw
Yeah it's incredible and you should do it.
Yessss😊
That does sound good.
I am a fan of ANY cheesecake with a fruit jelly layer =D
My mom lives very close to the Ocean Spray cranberry bogs! They are in fact close to the ocean.
I've noticed online that cranberries have become quite popular in the UK over the Christmas season. I wonder if they know that cranberries came from America? Edit--Oops, my mistake. I didn't realize they also grow in Europe!
Peter Kalm got a mention! I highly recommend reading "Into A New World: Peter Kalm in North America, 1748-1750" by C.J. Skamarakas.
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This was my first year making my own cranberry sauce and canning jars of it for the year. So simple and better tasting.
I made muffins with fresh cranberries. They were good, and it was the first I tried making any food with cranberries. They were easy to handle. That sauce looks easy enough to make.
Last night for dinner we had leftover roast chicken and homemade cranberry sauce. And adding the sauce to each bite of chicken was so good. I understand why it was so popular!
Cranberries are phenomenal!! I eat them almost every day. Born in Chatham MA I think I have cranberries in my blood 😂
I suspect that the colonists knew of the berries, they look like cowberries (lingonberry in Swedish)
I agree. Preiselbeeren in German, tranebær/tyttebær in Danish, zurawina in Polish. They might not be exactly the same variety, but they are very close for sure. Immigrants from central and northern Europe would instantly have recognized them.
In the UK we don’t have thanksgiving so cranberries we associate with Christmas ( particularly if you have roast turkey on Christmas Day)
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Cranberries in the crock pot now 😂
I'm making rice pudding in a pumpkin and there's cranberries instead of raisins
As a child, I always thought cranberries were can shaped. I was cranberry tainted.
Those would be Canberries!
My 1st Thanksgiving in Utah, I made a wonderful cranberry relish(12 oz cranberries, 2 oranges chopped fine in food processor, add 2 cups sugar, refrigerate for at least 24 hr). My oldest wouldn't eat it because it didn't come out of a can, do I bought her a can of the whole berry sauce. She wouldn't eat it because it wasn't shaped like the can. That 11 yr old is now 42 and goes full gourmet with all her holiday cooking and wouldn't be caught dead with canberries 😂. Amazing what 31 years will do
@@maryjane-vx4dd my sister makes her with 5 whole cloves and 2 whole all spiced berries and a stuck of cinnamon. Its a fun, holiday tradition to spoon through the cranberries to fish out the whole spices so nobody takes a bite of one.
She usually makes a double batch so whatever's left over on Thanksgiving gets served on Christmas day.
I remember the first time that 1: I tasted fresh cranberry juice (unbelievably good) and 2: I tasted cranberry sauce made fresh. Totally changed my opinion of cranberries.
I wonder if they would be good in a pie with strawberries like rhubarb.
It's just not Thanksgiving without cranberries!
Whenever I feel like I’m getting sick I use lemon juice and cranberry juice it usually breaks everything up for me in about 2 days
Part of my family autumn tradition is to hike, out to a bog, and pick cranberries. We make some cranberry sauce for the Thanksgiving meal and can the rest for use during the rest of the year.
Cranberry sauce and mustard on a turkey sandwich is better than the Thanksgiving meal itself
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Cranberry AND Mustard? Will have to try that out.
ooof that's so good
I'm personally partial to cranberry sauce, stuffing, and mayonnaise on a turkey sandwich, but yes, the cranberry sauce adds the moisture that the turkey may lose from being refrigerated.
@@JagerLange they make cranberry mustard, its fabulous.
I never tried American cranberries other than dried in a nut mix. They are not as easy to get in Germany. But as you said we have a similar berry in Central and Northern Europe. In German they're called 'Preiselbeere' and it goes perfectly with grilled or baked cheese - especially French soft cheese like Camembert or Brie - and venison.
I love cranberry sauce. I make my own and it is delicious. A doctor I worked with brought a sauce to a potluck that was added with orange juice. It was also very good.
A few years back they would go on sale after Christmas for 99 cents a bag. I bought 25 bags and put them in the freezer.
Now cranberries are $2.50 a bag.
Thank you for an excellent video.
In Belgium, we pay 3,75$ for a bag of 350 grams or 12,34 ounce ..
My family came to Massachusetts in the 1600"s from England... and I still eat cranberries today as they did then.
It makes sense that people would have enjoyed cranberries in the spring. It would have been easier to chew them if they had more time to break down, without spoiling. I bet they were really tasty in the winter.
I'm originally from Southern New Jersey. Cranberry bogs are a common sight there in the "Pine Barrens", but they do grow wild in the Pine Barrens (which I camped and hiked in often). Cranberries MUST BE SWEEETENED, otherwise they are virtually inedible (at least to American or European tastes). I'm interested to know how the American Indians prepared them, since sugar wasn't something readily available.
Canned cranberry sauce was my Mom's favorite accompaniment for turkey.
Your mention of some people eating the cranberries the spring after they ripened reminded me a bit of what I learned in my culinary school's short wine course about ice wine, or Eiswein, which makes for a sweet dessert wine. I wonder if what happens with the cranberries is similar to what happens to the grapes used for those wines.
I love watching these videos while I'm eating my own dinner. Gives me a warm cozy vibe while enjoying a delightful topic, presented by someone who is clearly genuinely excited to share his knowledge.
I've made cranberry sauce to compliment a few kinds of meat, including fish (specifically chicken, pork, haddock and cod). It really can pair well with many things... the key is balancing flavors, particularly the sweetness and tartness, to go optimally with the attributes of the meat. I haven't used it with beef but I'd just consider the cut and cooking method to imagine the best compliment to it.
Cranberries are absolutely, incredibly versatile.
I've seen blackberries used with salmon, so I don't think it's a completely crazy idea!
Where I grew up, in NJ, right on the edge of the Pine Barrens, there are HUGE cranberry bogs, mostly operated by Ocean Spray.
Southern NJ has the Pinelands and the Pinelands have cranberry bogs. Every Fall is a joy to watch the bogs get flooded and the ripe cranberries floated to harvest. It is a beautiful sight to behold.
Fantastic content as always. Love this channel.
You dont even have to make cranberry jelly. Just follow the instructions on the bag and its pretty much ready to go on toast right then!
Cranberry bread is our holiday tradition!!
Thank you John Townsend, I love your videos and I love history, I've been in a pretty depressed times but your video really helped me, please don't stop uploading
How many takes did you have to do to get the cranberry out of the can?
Love your channel! :) Can't say how much I appreciate creators like you who make such high quality content.
It worked perfectly the first time (but we did have backup cans of sauce....just in case)
Thanks for the encouragement!
Greetings and belated Thanksgiving to you and your family.
I have two cranberry/colonial times stories to share with you.
Over 30 years ago my daughter made a colonial dinner with adult help in the fireplace hearth.
It was a school project we all worked on together.
She dressed in replica clothes my departed Auntie made with a bonnet apron long skirt the works.
I made a stew we cooked it in the large fireplace hearth .
She helped slice apples, pumpkins ,squash rings to dry on the large round stand alone fireplace screen/
I even bought some broad beans to string with hemp thread and dry along with the rest.
1.
I made a flat metal basket with which we dried dozens + dozens of fresh cranberries.
They were all excellent snack foods and....
2 Flat dry cranberries became incorporated into a replica pemmican recipe I invented for this project.
Cranberries are still a colonial super food in many ways.
Thanks for your constant work in preserving the past in meaningful demos for all of us to see and learn from
What a great memory! Neither of you will forget it.
I only ever had the jelled stuff in a can growing up, and I did not like it. When I was a teen, my aunt Flossie started adding a cranberry pie to her pie lineup at Thanksgiving and Christmas along side the pumpkin, mincemeat, custard, and chocolate pies she usually had. She kept trying to get me to give it a go, but I wouldn't because I pictured it as the canned stuff in a pie. I finally consented to her request, and was blown away at how good it was. It was shortly after that I tried whole cranberry sauce for the first time. So much better than the stuff in a can. Now I make it every year.
Jealous that you have an aunt ‘Flossie’
@@baddie1shoeme too!
I like them both. I've had whole cranberry sauce sit in my fridge for almost a year and they were still good! They were less tart.
@@baddie1shoe She was one of my grandfather's sisters. They lived up the road from where I grew up, and the whole extended family would gather there at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. There were four of them. Aunt Rose was the eldest, followed by Aunt Violet, Aunt Flossie, and Aunt Queenie. None of them ever married, and have all passed. They are greatly missed, and not just for their great food.
@@russrollins9978 interesting! A Queenie even. Why did they never marry?
Enjoyed every moment of this! Thank you kindly for covering the noble cranberry, and revealing a history rich as its flavoring!
What a fantastic video topic! Amazing work.
Cranberries are ine of my favorite foods to snack on, also Cranberry sauce is amazing!! Great content guys!!
We put up jars and jars of lingon berry jam when I was a kid. My favorite part was chewing the wax used to seal the jars like gum when we opened a new jar
Who loves cranberry + grape juice?
Cranberry Apple is great too
Love CranGrape! And CranApple! CranPineapple is pretty good too!
@@jillhumphrys8073 ooh cranpineapple sounds good!
my favorite!@@faithwisdom788
Cranberry/blueberry is my favorite!
I saw grandmothers in Estonia traversing the bogs in their boots harvesting huge bowls of cranberries in September, it was so cool.
I really loved this video. I love the deep dive into one of our native foods and especially appreciate the history going back before and throughout the colonial period. It's also very neat that we are still using them the exact same way, today.
I appreciate townsends talking about the native american history in these videos.
Excellent information and history, i had no idea, every video y'all post has great information, thanks for sharing
I have made cranberry sauce for thanksgiving for decades. The past couple years I’ve made Nantucket cranberry pie for Christmas and kind of a cranberry upside down cake. My mom used to make cranberry pie occasionally and I’ve tried to make it but I never got her recipe so it never came out right.
I love cranberry sauce. It's one of my favorite things to eat at thanksgiving and also christmas
Great video very informative. Thanks Jon
nice video! I love cranberries and make a cranberry/apple/orange/walnut jello 'salad' that everyone loves. Actually, the jello part just kind of holds it together. I also make the warm sauce and a cold fresh sauce with oranges. You can't beat the flavor of cranberries and orange.
I love cranberries, sweet and tart in perfect balance
I think cranberries make the turkey dinner. I think it makes the taste of the meat shine. Also I rely on cranberry juice medicinally. Love me cranberries so I will try the tart
Thanks for the tutorial for a cranberry tart recipe! I have a copy of the book but missed that one. I had no clue you could preserve cranberries in water.
Wow, I had no idea cranberries weren't red inside. Nice to learn something new!
ive never cut a cranberry in half before, that was not what i was expecting it to look like
I'm so happy you doing cranberries ❤ nice forests sourced food!
Cranberry and orange chutney is delicious. Talk about fighting scurvy 😂
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I’m absolutely delighted to find out that making cranberry tarts is so simple. I want to try my hand at that craft and enjoy them with tea. It’s been an age since I’ve been to a proper bakery…
Neat to hear about the export before cultivation.
Interesting. Few things I did not know. I love making whole cranberry sauce and like to add chopped apples fresh ginger to it. Have also done it with chopped jalapenos but prefer ginger.
One of my favorite cranberry recipes is candied cranberries. You sort your fresh berries, taking out all the bad ones, and poking a hole in all the good ones with a toothpick, then soak them overnight in simple syrup (1:1 water and sugar). Once they have soaked overnight, take them out and roll them a few at a time in white sugar, and set on parchment paper to dry. Once they are dry they are ready to eat, a sweet/tart treat! and in a bowl, they make a pretty and edible table decoration!
My wife makes cranberry sauce every year @ Thanksgiving. I make wine, and made a cranberry wine one year. Turned out really nice.
You don't have to slice the cranberries before stewing them for sauce. Just boil them (with water & sugar) until they are translucent. That's my favorite way to prepare them. I don't even bother straining out the skins & seeds as you did.
I make my favorite cranberry sauce and put it up in jelly jars to have all year. I love it with chicken and pork but I think I'll stick with remoulade sauce for my fish. It seems like it's easier and just as good to make one big batch as to make it from stored cranberries when I want it. I'm going to have to put a handful in a jar and leave it in the pantry to see what happens, though.
Couldn't resist this one, thanks for sharing this saweeeeet-tart video Jon...
Love this!!
They are a unique and powerful flavor. It compliments 'gamey' or wild tasting meat very well.
Can't really describe it, but these videos are super comfy.
The are wonderful with ham too. The Swedish have lingon berries and serve it with several foods.
I can totally see cranberry sauce making mutton palatable. As a child, we never had pheasant but I used to smother my hated lamb chop with mint sauce. As an adult, I prepare it but I don't cook it in my house or eat more than a taste to see how it came out. Other people love it but it isn't my favorite.
I live how this channel brings the C17 and C18 to life. It makes you realise that but for the passage of time and circumstance; people are people and we share so much with those who came before. Only downside the king that popped up on screen wasn't Charles II, it was one of the Hannoverian Georges.
I make and water bath can my own cranberry juice in quart jars, it’s easy and DELICIOUS.
Easy to do, as well! Enjoyed this video!
up here in manitoba canada we have high bush cranberries they grow all throughout the bush no bogs required. we used to call the jelly toe jam jelly because of the smell
Cranberries +red wine reduction over a NY strip steak, yum
Yes, I love cranberries with lamb cause. Lamb is a very gamely meat and the tartness of cranberry's pairs very well.
This was very informative. Because cranberries have pockets of air inside of them, they float, and that's why they are easy to harvest. Cheers!
You sold me! Going to grow cranberries next year!!!!
If I ever saw this guy in jeans and a tshirt I'd be heartbroken.
that cranberry tart looks like a fantastic dessert, I'm suprised it somehow lost favor or was just never popular in the first place. It would be excellent after a Thanksgiving meal.
Thanks! I'm going to buy some cranberries and make some homemade cranberry sauce. I don't usually purchase cranberries because I always thought they'd go bad before I have a reason to use the rest of the package, but now I know I can basically save them for quite a while. Thank you!
I really like cranberries especially in cakes but I also like to eat them by
themselves thanks for another great
video especially about cranberries
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Cranberries are so good, especially in sauce, and dried form 🤣 oh and juice too
If making strained sauce, don't just throw away the solids (pomace). Macerate in some boiling water, then strain the water, sweeten it to taste and it makes for a tasty drink, hot, warm or cold. Cheesecloth is helpful for this and you might want to squeeze it by hand. This is known as "mors" in some European areas. Or thicken it slightly with starch for more body (potato starch tastes better in this application). This would be known as "kissel". Kissel can be served as a beverage or as soup, topped with whipped cream.
The day after Thanksgiving I had a sandwich of turkey with cranberry sauce on top of mount SI in Washington state. (Washington grows a lot of cranberries)