Bourbon Persimmon Cranberry Sauce

[Cheryl Nelson]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Bourbon-Persimmon-Cranberry-Sauce/

Gather the following for your Cranberry Sauce:

• 24 oz (1 1/2 cups) Fresh Cranberries
• 4 Fuyu Persimmons
• 1/2 Cup of White Sugar
• 1/4 Cup of Bourbon
• 1/2 Cup of Water

Place your cranberries, sugar and 1/2 cup of water in a deep sauce pan. Turn your stove on to medium heat. Heat until your sauce begins to simmer. Continue to simmer for about 5-7 minutes. The cranberries will break down into a sauce like consistency and your water content should reduce so that your mixture is thick and not watery. Stir consistently so as not to burn your sauce.

Add 1/4 c of bourbon to your mixture. If you want the taste of bourbon without the alcoholic content, continue to simmer for another 3-5 minutes again taking care to stir consistently. You can also keep the alcoholic content and simply remove the pan from the stove. I prefer to cook it off but retain the flavor.

While your sauce is simmering, cut the ends off of your persimmons and peel away the skin with a vegetable peeler or carefully with a knife. Cut your persimmons into eighths and continue to dice your persimmons. You can dice them as small as you'd like. Since the cranberries have already broken down into the sauce, your persimmons will be the largest item in your sauce. Because of this, I like to chop them to 1cm cubes usually, but again, you can leave them larger if you like.

Fold your chopped persimmons into your sauce. Stir gently but thoroughly to evenly incorporate the persimmons with the cranberries.

Place in a tupperware to store or serve immediately. If you store it, keep your sauce in your refrigerator and keep for several weeks.

Add it to your Thanksgiving meal, or to your next sandwich! Enjoy.

[Kim B]

Looks good.  I like mixing pear chunks in with cranberries.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Back in the day when I could eat jello, I'd make cranberry jello with diced apples, walnuts, and celery.  Do the same, without the jello, but with fresh cranberries.  Or even make a cranberry soup, take unsweetened cranberry juice and add the fruits and nuts (and I would sweeten it with stevia).

[Dianna Spencer]

Boy, does that sound good! And I have all the ingredients in stock for a change. Yum yum!