Cranberry Vinegar Recipes

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring all ingredients to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until the cranberries burst. Cool. Strain through a fine sieve into sterilized bottles or jars. Seal tightly. Discard cranberries and cinnamon stick. Chill until ready to use in your vinegar-and-oil salad dressing.

Steps:

• Put cranberries, syrup and salt in a pan and heat over high heat until cranberries begin to pop. Remove from heat, let cool and then puree in a blender. Add vinegar and taste for balance. Add more vinegar and thin with water if necessary. Strain through a fine strainer into a bowl or pitcher. Store in a clean jar or bottle (do not use metal lids or tops) and refrigerate. Keeps several weeks.
• Keep this syrup on hand to add to iced tea and other cold drinks or for poaching fruit. It does not need to be refrigerated. The vanilla is minced to make sure all its flavor is extracted into the syrup.
• Put the sugar, water, vanilla beans, a pinch salt, and the thyme leaves in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower heat to a simmer and cook about 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Let cool. Puree syrup in a blender until vanilla beans are thoroughly chopped into the syrup. Strain through a fine strainer into a sterilized jar. If using vanilla extract instead of beans, add extract after the sugar syrup has cooled and pour into a jar. Seal tightly.

Steps:

• Wash cranberries and pat dry.
• In a medium stainless or enamel pot combine berries with the vinegar, honey, and cinnamon stick.
• Bring to a full rolling boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 8-10 minutes.
• You want the cranberries to burst.
• Strain hot vinegar through 3 layers of wet cheesecloth.
• Pour into hot sterile jars and seal.
• Keeps in fridge for 1 year.

Steps:

• Combine first 3 ingredients in heavy medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.
• Mix in cranberries, cinnamon stick and orange peel.
• Reduce heat, cover partially and simmer until berries burst, about 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Cool completely (sauce will thicken as it cools).
• Discard cinnamon stick.
• Can be prepared up to 1 week ahead; cover and chill.

Steps:

• Whisk vinegar, cranberries, sugar, mustard, salt, garlic, and pepper together in a bowl until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved. Stream oil into the mixture while whisking continually; continue whisking until the oil emulsifies into the vinegar.

Steps:

• In a bowl whisk together the syrup, the mustard, the vinegar, the cranberry juice, and salt to taste, add the oil in a stream, whisking, and whisk the vinaigrette until it is emulsified.