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Cranberries vastly extend lifespan; If you're a fruit fly
Topic Started: Dec 29 2013, 02:05 AM (660 Views)
heatseeker
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http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304773104579268213696526486

I'm probably way too cynical, but it does strike me as a huge coincidence that this study surfaces just when a huge cranberry surplus is disclosed.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/what-are-we-going-do-all-these-surplus-cranberries
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Darcie
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I really like cranberries
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Durgan
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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?UVRHQ 15 October 2013 Cranberry Juice
Twenty four pounds of cranberries were made into 24 litres of juice. The berries were purchased from Cosco at five dollars per three pound pack. The berries were grown in Bala, Ontario.
Procedure was wash, add ten litres of water for each batch, boil in two batches, made into a slurry with hand blender and strained through a food mill, then the residue was put through a Champion Juicer. Twenty four litres of juice was obtained or each litre contains about one pound of cranberries. The jars were pressure canned at 15 PSI for 15 minutes for long term storage.The juice is a perfect texture for drinking. Pictures depict the process. Note: Cranberries contain absolutely no inherent juice.

May I suggest the health benefits are mostly bullshit. My method of preparation utilizes the full berry and I use it as one would any good juice. I am even use to the bit of a sour taste. Don't even think of comparing mine to the coloured water sold commercially.

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Trotsky
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Durgan,

You must spend half your life running to the toilet.
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Durgan
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Dec 29 2013, 05:17 AM
Durgan,

You must spend half your life running to the toilet.
Absolutely not. Typical and normal body functions. I drink any of my juices with impunity and practically live on them, about two to three litres per day. Often mixed in the drinking glass.

I try to create some variation now and then.
Dehydrated vegetables with mussels.
Baked potato with cooked garlic.
A piece of Dutch Oven cooked pork.
A piece of fried cod with baked potato.

The aim is to try and not eat simple commercial prepared foods, unless I do the preparation.
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Delphi51
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Five dollars for three pounds? Wow, good price!
I would love to taste real cranberry juice.

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Trotsky
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Dec 29 2013, 05:41 AM
Five dollars for three pounds? Wow, good price!
I would love to taste real cranberry juice.

And I was just at Costco.

Can you just eat cranberries out of the bag or are they too sour and seed-filled?
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angora
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Too sour, too hard. I made cranberry garlands for my Christmas tree one year..never again. My fingers had holes in them for the next year with trying to poke a darning needle in the darn things.
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imjene
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Dried cranberries are great scattered on top of a salad or cooked with your morning oatmeal.
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Darcie
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I made oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and white chocolate probably not too healthy but very delicious.
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Olive Oil
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I'm curious to know if cranberry sauce could be made, and frozen in pint jars. I am quite hooked on the lingonberry sauce from Ikea but this would be much less expensive. Lingonberries seem to be a close relative of cranberries.
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I'm sure that freezing cranberry sauce should be no problem. I think that I have done it in the past when I had too much left over. Just don't fill your jars too full, -- or freeze in plastic containers.
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Dec 29 2013, 06:45 AM
I'm curious to know if cranberry sauce could be made, and frozen in pint jars. I am quite hooked on the lingonberry sauce from Ikea but this would be much less expensive. Lingonberries seem to be a close relative of cranberries.
Sometimes I don't know why I try.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?UVRHQ 15 October 2013 Cranberry Juice
Twenty four pounds of cranberries were made into 24 litres of juice. The berries were purchased from Cosco at five dollars per three pound pack. The berries were grown in Bala, Ontario.
Procedure was wash, add ten litres of water for each batch, boil in two batches, made into a slurry with hand blender and strained through a food mill, then the residue was put through a Champion Juicer. Twenty four litres of juice was obtained or each litre contains about one pound of cranberries. The jars were pressure canned at 15 PSI for 15 minutes for long term storage.The juice is a perfect texture for drinking. Pictures depict the process. Note: Cranberries contain absolutely no inherent juice.
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I like thel ingonberry sauce too, but I would simply make cranberry sauce like a preserve, can it rather than freeze it. Depends on hw much space there is in your freezer I guess.
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I just freeze the berries, and make the sauce throughout the year as required.

Take care,
Pat
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