What Do You Do With Your Cranberry Jelly After Crimbo?

[plowter]

What do you do with your cranberry jelly after Crimbo?
Any useful ideas or recipes?

[LyndaB]

I love cranberry sauce and eat it all year round - it's especially delicious with roast chicken! And mixed with a bit of orange juice and mint sauce, it's perfect with roast lamb. Or try it in a sandwich - Wensleydale cheese with cranberry sauce on granary bread is yum yum yum!

[humbersloop]

Plowter, you don't need to buy it in jars.

Buy some fresh or frozen berries, add maybe two ounces of water to 400g, with a table spoon of sugar or honey and a squeeze of lemon juice. Gently bring up to a simmer for five mins -that's it. You can season it with any combo orange zest, cinnamon, port (no chance here, that's gone) pepper, and then just freeze leftovers for a month or so. Much cheaper

[mrs_overall]

My favourite sandwich is turkey, cream cheese and cranberry. It sounds odd, but it works

[hammerman]

Deep fried Brie with cranberry sauce or Brie and cranberry wontons made from filo pastry

[Ann]

Add it to rice pudding - use it like jam, I love it all the year round.

[plowter]

Thanks humbersloop, you've given me inspiration.
Off to the shop to buy some fresh cranberries to make cranberry jelly.
A man with a plan and a pan? It's gonna be messy.

[humbersloop]

Go for it plowter! Let us know how it goes

[Georgiesmum]

Put it in your turkey sandwiches. simple!

[Hopkirk]

Ours gets put in the kitchen cupboard until well past the expiry date, then thrown out.

[plowter]

Had a fun afternoon making cranberry jelly.
Smell was wonderful - reminded me of when my gran used to make the bramble jelly.
First attempt was too bitter, think I boiled the berries to death.
Second attempt was a reasonable balance of sugar and berry.
Third attempt - added some apple pulp. Turns out quite tasty.
Used every bowl and pot in the flat - Mrs P not happy.

[rowanwitch]

make a sauce with the jelly, port and a dash of balsamic vinegar and marinade pork chops in it

[daisymaisy]

It's lovely added to plain yoghurt or add as a filling in a ham sandwich