Mom's cranberry relish

[mdlbear]

My mother was an excellent cook. I have no idea where she found her recipe for cranberry relish, but today is the day to make it if you wanted it to be at its best on Thanksgiving. So I did. It's trivial.

Ingredients: one apple, one orange, one pound of cranberries. Cut the apple into quarters and cut the core out. Cut the orange in half, scrape out the seeds, then cut each half into between two and four pieces; whatever will fit in the chute of your food processor. Don't peel either of them. It might help if the berries had been previously frozen -- we had some that were left over from last year.

Chop them all up in the food processor or, better, run them through a meat grinder with a coarse plate, which is the way Mom did it. I find that with a food processor it helps to put the cranberries in first.

That's it. It's okay the day you make it, but it's better after a couple of days in the fridge. Taste it the next day to see whether it needs sugar; it usually doesn't.

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