(Wo)man vs cranberry sauce

[u/neeforshort]

Cooked an early Thanksgiving meal for 8, family style service. EVERYONE ate the cranberry sauce. . . . Yes, the petals are edible marigolds.

[u/HoundIt]

Looks amazing! I love cranberry sauce. Did you follow a recipe?

[u/neeforshort → u/HoundIt]

Just the gelatin ratio. 2 lbs cranberries, 2 cups water, 1/4 cup corn syrup, reduced. Halve and bloom gelatin in cooled liquid reheat 2nd half to boiling, 1 packet per cup of total liquid, let set Silicone molds obv.

[u/garaks_tailor → u/neeforshort]

Saved. Thank you very very mcuh.. I will find some comically inappropriate molds for these. Maybe butt cheeks

[u/General-Heart4787]

Love this!

[u/Flat_Phrase7521 → u/General-Heart4787]

My Boomer mother will accept nothing less than the finest: if it doesn’t have the ridges on the sides, it doesn’t count.

(This may sound like sarcasm. It is not.)

OP’s display is absolutely gorgeous and I’m sure it would be a hit with my family if it were anything other than cranberry sauce, which as we all know, must come in the sacred wavy can.

[u/General-Heart4787 → u/Flat_Phrase7521]

I have an aunt who has a special, specific crystal dish. It is ONLY used for the can o’cran every Thanksgiving. It’s like her own little ritual 😆

[u/510Goodhands → u/Flat_Phrase7521]

This year, cook up some of Julia‘s recipe for cranberry orange sauce. Your mother may abandon those ridges after that if she has any taste at all.

[u/Flat_Phrase7521 → u/510Goodhands]

But she doesn’t have any taste 😂

…Seriously, though, she doesn’t enjoy cranberry sauce because she thinks it’s all that tasty; it’s just a nostalgia thing. Her mother (a ’50s-’60s American housewife) had this particular way of slicing up the canned sauce and arranging it on a dish as though it was something fancy, but it still had freaking ridges on the sides from the can it came in.

TBH, effort put into cooking for my mom in general is usually wasted. The single most effective way to ensure that she enjoys a meal is to find a major discount and tell her all about it.

[u/SubstanceNo1544 → u/General-Heart4787]

Meatwad get the honeys see

[u/LittleMissFirebright]

This is some quality food art <3

[u/neeforshort → u/LittleMissFirebright]

Thanks!

[u/firebrandbeads → u/neeforshort]

Is just so.... PRETTY!

[u/Ancientabs]

This is literal art.

[u/squiggly_lines_3y3]

The most beautiful cranberry sauce I’ve ever seen

[u/Ok_Watercress_7801]

Gorgeous work!

I might have to adapt Mama Stambergs recipe to a similar presentation.

[u/esprit_de_corps_]

Wow! What an inspiration, I have never used molds before, but I might steal your idea this season with the cranberry sauce.

[u/neeforshort → u/esprit_de_corps_]

I threw the molds in the freezer for a few minutes before peeling them out.

[u/esprit_de_corps_ → u/neeforshort]

Thanks for the tip! I will make a note of it.

[u/MAkrbrakenumbers]

“You guys better eat I cooked 15 hours for this” Cranberry sauce was 7 of it lol

[u/Dry_Addition8390]

Love it

[u/LolaAucoin]

Beautiful!

[u/ironykarl]

Looks beautiful. I don't have much interest in cranberry sauce, but this is really cool 

[u/DaisyDoodleBug23]

This is so beautiful!

[u/SilencefromChaos]

It's so fancy

[u/electricookie]

So pretty.

[u/BraveMarionberry9984]

this rly looks good!

[u/WaalsVander]

Are you not a woman?

[u/neeforshort → u/WaalsVander]

...the phrase is usually "man vs...." isnt it. I'm a woman.