Cranberries

The Queen's Cranberry Relish, for a Royal Thanksgiving Feast

This English-style cranberry conserve (with nuts) is the bee’s knees! My husband learned the chef business under Art Wood in the 1960’s at the Wagon Wheel Lodge in Rockton, Illinois. Art cooked for the Queen–yes, yes, Elizabeth of England! I don’t know whether he served  this to her, but he did serve it at the …

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Tracy Lee Karner

Cranberries 2 ways and for fools

I’m not talking to fools; I’m talking about them. Fools are those delightfully simple and comforting fruit & cream desserts, cleverly named by the English. For reasons I know nothing about, they come up with fanciful monikers for what they eat at dinner.  Sausages and potatoes (Bangers and Mash), soup (Cock-a-leekie) and desserts (trifles and fools) . The recipe for fools is simple, puree some fruit …

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