Port Cranberry Sauce

Tip: Read directions completely before preparing.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

3/4 cup water

1 tablespoon reduced port wine, (I use Adams brand)

4 cups (1 12 oz package) fresh cranberries

1 medium orange, for strips of orange zest and juice

pinch fresh nutmeg

Directions:

Wash and pick over cranberries. In a saucepan bring to a boil water, sugar, port wine and squeezed juice from orange, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add a few strips of orange zest, and pinch of fresh ground nutmeg.  Add cranberries, return to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes or until cranberries burst. Remove from heat. Cool completely at room temperature and then chill in refrigerator.

Cranberry sauce will thicken as it cools. Enjoy!

Servings: About 2 1/4 cups

Tip: Did you know that cows love cranberries! The English word cranberry is the shortened version of craneberry, which came from the plant's flowers that dip down and resemble the head of a crane.