How Many Cranberry Sauce Recipes Should You Bring to Thanksgiving 2023?

This helpful entry covers more than a celebrated Thursday’s cranberry sauce, but let’s begin there. After all, if we happen to forget the cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, Grandma might be disappointed.

Bring More Than One Style of Cranberry Sauce

Many of us only consume cranberry sauce in November, so it’s a shame if we never stray from the traditional recipe. Consider arriving at Thanksgiving with multiple cranberry sauces and selecting from a broad spectrum:

Traditional cranberry sauce in a can
Gourmet cranberry sauce in a jar
Small-batch, boutique cranberry sauce
Homemade cranberry-orange sauce
Homemade cranberry chutney

Clearly, cranberry sauces offer an array of flavors to the Thanksgiving table, so bring at least two options.

Bring the Heat

You could offer folks a traditional option alongside one that packs a little fire. Online, you’ll find recipes for

Hot pepper cranberry sauce
Jalapeño cranberry sauce
Cranberry-habanero relish

It’s hard not to be a hit when you bring one of these.

Know Your Audience

Decisions about cranberry sauce are like many others in life. You have to consider your audience.

At some gatherings, everything has to be a certain way. Your family may include a person with a dominant personality who has high expectations. If that person expects you to show up with traditional cranberry sauce and nothing else, please follow that script.

Alternatively, you may be headed to a Thanksgiving celebration among folks who love to try new things. That crowd might have a blast trying an array of cranberry sauces. You could even create a taste-testing game.

But What if You Don’t Even Want to Bring Yourself to Thanksgiving?

Which cranberry sauce to choose might currently seem irrelevant to you. Right now, you may be considering skipping the big get-together.

You might feel surprised that you don’t want to go. In the past, you loved Thanksgiving. This year, you’re just not into it.

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