Happy Monday everyone! It’s Erin and I apologize for not getting this post up earlier – it’s been your typical Monday! 🙂

Today I thought I would share some cranberry recipes with you all since Thanksgiving is right around the corner.  If you remember back in June, I posted about my connection to cranberries. So I dug out my recipe book and looked up 3 recipes that my Mom sent me. My family loves all of these and they all are usually at our Thanksgiving table!

Grandmother’s Cranberry Jello (we also refer to it as Cranberry Relish)

No. 2 can (2 1/2 cups) crushed pineapple

2 pkgs cherry-flavored gelatin

3/4 cups sugar

2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup cold water

1 to 2 tbls lemon juice

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1 1/2 cups ground raw cranberries (one pound)

1 small orange, ground (1/2 cup)

1 cup chopped celery

1/2 cups walnuts, chopped

Drain pineapple (reserve the syrup). Combine gelatin and sugar, dissolve in hot water. Add cold water, lemon juice and reserved juice. (I have a note on one receipe that Grandma did not put in the reserve pineapple juice – so you can choose either option – both are good). Chill until partial set. Add the pineapple and remaining ingredients. Turn into 2 quart mold. Chill until firm.

Notes from my Mom: Make it at least the day before as it takes a while to set. If you don’t it chunky – add the cranberries, orange, celery and walnuts to a food processor or blender.

Cranberry Nut Bread

Mix:

1 cup cranberries, coarselyl chopped

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1 tbls grated orange peel

Mix dry in:

2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

Then cut in 2 tbls shortening

Stir in:

Just to moisten

3/4 cup orange juice

1 egg well beated

Fold in cranberries and nuts

Spoon in greased and floured loaf pan

Bake at 350 for 60 minutes

Cool 15 minutes and then remove from pan

St. John’s Cranberry Nut Pie (from the church I went to growing up)

make the bottom crust of a 9 inch pie pan – using your own special pie crust recipe (sorry – just have the recipe for the filling!)

put into pie shell:

2 cups cranberries

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Mix

1/2 cup white sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup flour

1/3 cup melted butter

Pour this over the cranberries

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Okay – these are the recipes exactly as my Mom gave them to me.  Hopefully they aren’t too difficult to follow! If you try a recipe – please let me know what you think! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!