Recipes for Eatmor Fresh Cranberries — Background and Themes

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Authors: Eatmor Cranberries Digital Source: Project Gutenberg Gutenberg Release Year: 2010 First Publication Year: Not confirmed

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This editorial note examines the concise, imperative voice and structural pacing of a mid-20th-century cranberry recipe pamphlet, focusing on its efficient instructions, variation patterns, and freezing advice.

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_Recipes for_ Eatmor(R) _Fresh_ CRANBERRIES

10-Minute Cranberry Sauce

2 cups sugar 2 cups water 4 cups Eatmor Cranberries (one bag or box)

Boil sugar and water together 5 minutes. Add cranberries and boil, without stirring, until all the skins pop open--about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool in saucepan. Makes one quart 10-Minute Cranberry Sauce.

=Cranberry-Ambrosia.= Pour sauce over thin-sliced oranges, top with shredded cocoanut for Cranberry Ambrosia.

=Minted Cranberry Sauce.= Stir in teaspoon chopped fresh mint or few drops mint extract for Minted Cranberry Sauce.

=Cranberry Apricot Delight.= Add 1 cup cooked sweetened apricots for Cranberry Apricot Delight.

=Cranberry-Chiquita.= Fold in 3 bananas cut in 1/2 inch slices for Cranberry-Chiquita.

=Cranberry-Ruby Pears.= Spoon sauce over cooked or canned pear halves for Cranberry-Ruby Pears.

_Put some in your freezer and enjoy these appetizing fresh cranberry sauces the year round._

Quick-Freezing Fresh Cranberries

You can enjoy the appetizing flavor of fresh cranberries the year round by putting a good supply of Eatmor in your home freezer or storage locker.

It's the easiest fruit to freeze. No processing is required. All you have to do is place the unopened bag or box of Eatmor Cranberries directly in your freezing unit.

When ready to use--handle exactly as you would fresh cranberries. No thawing is required. Pour in colander, rinse in cold water, drain. Use in any standard fresh cranberry recipe.

2 3/4 cups water 2 cups sugar 4 cups Eatmor Cranberries (one bag or box) 1 tablespoon gelatin (1 envelope) 1/4 cup cold water Juice and grated rind 1 lemon Juice and grated rind 1 orange

Combine cranberries, water and sugar in saucepan. Cook until cranberries are soft. Put through sieve or food mill. Soften gelatin in cold water and dissolve in hot cranberry puree. Stir in fruit juice and rind. Cool. Pour into refrigerator tray and freeze until firm. Makes 1 quart.

Cranberry Orange Relish

2 cups sugar 4 cups Eatmor Cranberries (one bag or box) 2 Sunkist oranges, quartered and seeded

Put raw cranberries and oranges through Waring Blendor or food chopper. Add sugar and mix well. Chill in refrigerator a few hours before serving. Makes one quart relish. This relish will keep well in the refrigerator for several weeks. Try quick-freezing Cranberry Orange Relish.

=Cranberry Apple Relish.= Peel, core and dice 2 apples; stir in for Cranberry Apple Relish.

=Cranberry Vegetable Relish.= Stir in 1/2 cup each diced raw carrots and celery for Cranberry Vegetable Relish.

=Cranberry Citrus Relish.= Add 1 cup canned or fresh grapefruit segments for Cranberry Citrus Relish.

=Spicy Cranberry Relish.= Stir in pinch powdered cinnamon and cloves for Spicy Cranberry Relish.

=Cranberry Hawaiian Relish.= Stir in 1 cup frozen, canned or fresh diced pineapple for Cranberry Hawaiian Relish.

_You can enjoy fresh Cranberry Orange Relish the year round by freezing a supply for later use._

1 recipe favorite pastry 2 1/4 cups sugar 1/2 cup water 2 cups apple slices 4 cups Eatmor Cranberries 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons water

Roll out half of pastry and fit into 9-inch pan. Combine sugar, water, apple slices and Eatmor Cranberries in saucepan. Cook until cranberries pop--about 10 minutes. Make a paste of cornstarch and remaining water, stir into fruit and continue cooking until thick and clear--about 5 minutes. Cool and pour into pie shell. Roll out remaining pastry and cut in strips. Arrange crisscross fashion over top. Bake in 425 deg. F. oven 25 minutes.

Trim the house in the real old-fashioned way with gay red cranberries strung with thread and needle on the Christmas tree. Alternate a piece of snowy white popcorn for contrast.

Also for dangling on the green branches, make four inch circlets of cranberries twisted with silver Christmas rope or tinsel strips.

Make a cranberry Santa. A circle of berries on wire makes the body and three berries make each arm and leg. A round cardboard circle topped with a paper red hat needs but a fluff of cotton whiskers to complete Saint Nick.

Name Me and _WIN_ a new CADILLAC CONVERTIBLE or one of 60 other Valuable Prizes

Select an appropriate first and last name for the Eatmor Cranberry girl pictured above.

In 25 words or less tell why you like

Eatmor(R) _Fresh_ CRANBERRIES

Other prizes, 10 G. E. Home Freezers, 25 G. E. Triple Whip Mixers, 10 Waring Blendors, 25 $10 cash prizes.

Prizes will be awarded on what Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation considers most appropriate first and last name and most original, sincere and apt statement.

Send as many entries as you wish to address below but make sure each entry includes your name and address and Eatmor name from cellophane bag or window box.

EATMOR CONTEST, P. O. BOX 120, New York, N. Y.

_Contest closes December 31, 1953._

End of Project Gutenberg's Recipes for Eatmor Fresh Cranberries, by Anonymous

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The pamphlet opens with a bold claim: a 10-minute cranberry sauce. The recipe’s structure is stripped to essentials: sugar, water, cranberries, and a precise five-minute boil after the berries are added. The instruction to boil “without stirring” until the skins pop is a rare sensory cue in an otherwise utilitarian text. This directness characterizes the entire collection, where verbs dominate and adjectives are sparse.

Each recipe follows a consistent pattern: a short ingredient list, a brief method, and a yield. The voice is that of a confident home economist, assuming the reader has basic kitchen competence. The variations appended to the sauce and relish sections extend the core recipes with minimal extra instruction, suggesting a modular approach to flavor.

Imperative Efficiency and Omitted Subjects

The recipes are built on commands: “Boil,” “Add,” “Stir,” “Pour.” Subjects are almost always implied, creating a brisk, instructional tone. For example, the Cranberry Sherbet method begins “Combine cranberries, water and sugar in saucepan. Cook until cranberries are soft.” No “you” appears; the reader is addressed through the imperative. This style mirrors other mid-century promotional cookbooks, but here it is particularly lean. The absence of polite phrases or explanatory asides speeds the pace. Even the freezing instructions are terse: “Place the unopened bag or box of Eatmor Cranberries directly in your freezing unit.” The only personal pronoun is “your” in “your home freezer,” which appears in the introductory paragraph, not in the recipe steps themselves.

Variation as a Structural Device

Two recipes—10-Minute Cranberry Sauce and Cranberry Orange Relish—are followed by lists of variations. These are not separate recipes but quick additions: “Stir in teaspoon chopped fresh mint” or “Add 1 cup cooked sweetened apricots.” The variations are presented as bullet-like lines without numbered steps, relying on the base recipe’s method. This creates a branching structure: one core technique yields multiple dishes. The relish variations include savory additions like “diced raw carrots and celery” and sweet ones like “canned or fresh diced pineapple.” The pamphlet thus offers a small combinatorial system, encouraging the reader to experiment while keeping the instruction set compact. The variations also hint at a broader culinary context—Ambrosia, Hawaiian, Chiquita—suggesting the brand’s marketing alignment with mid-century exoticism.

Pacing Through Freezing and Yield Notes

The pamphlet repeatedly emphasizes freezing as a way to extend the season. After the sauce variations, a paragraph urges: “Put some in your freezer and enjoy these appetizing fresh cranberry sauces the year round.” A similar note follows the relish. These interjections break the recipe sequence, shifting from immediate preparation to long-term storage. They also introduce a different temporal pace: the quick sauce becomes a make-ahead item. The yield statements (“Makes one quart”) are placed at the end of each recipe, providing a clear closure. The combination of rapid cooking times (5–10 minutes) and freezing advice creates a rhythm of fast production and slow consumption. The pamphlet’s overall pacing thus alternates between urgent, active steps and patient, passive storage.

The pamphlet’s language is a model of mid-century efficiency, but its variations and freezing notes reveal a hidden flexibility. Readers may find it useful to read the base recipes first, then treat the variations as prompts for improvisation. The absence of oven temperatures or baking times suggests that the intended audience already knows how to make a pie crust or operate a food mill. This is not a beginner’s guide but a streamlined reference for cooks who value speed and variety.

That gray afternoon, the cranberry pamphlet’s crisp imperatives felt almost soothing against the window rain, its freezing tips like small certainties. Later, I drifted to Collectors' Items: Fifty Superb Recipes from Spice Islands — Reading Companion, whose warm, patient tone was the steadier echo my quiet mood sought—a different kind of kitchen comfort, entirely by chance.