Cranberry Sauce with Pears and Fresh Ginger

Name: Cranberry Sauce with Pears and Fresh Ginger
Yield: Serves 9 (Makes about 2 1/4 cups)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, water; 1 cup, granulated sugar; 1 tablespoon, grated fresh ginger; 1/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; , 1 (12-ounce) bag cranberries, picked through; 2 , medium pears, firm, ripe, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch chunks

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1999

SERVES9 (Makes about 2 1/4 cups)

TIME20 minutes, plus 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

What combination of basic ingredients—cranberries, sweetener, and liquid—would give us a cranberry sauce recipe with a clean, pure cranberry flavor and with enough sweetness to temper the assertively tart fruit but not so much that the sauc...

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