Mm, this looks so good. This year I discovered how much I really love cranberries. Just posted a recipe for cranberry applesauce in my own blog. I'll have to this jam recipe out. Thanks for sharing.

For years I've been collecting cookbooks on my travels. I always look for books that are published locally, and I rarely see any of those books in the US. My favorites are Mrs. So-and-So's recipes -- the books are always paperbacks, and Mrs. So-and-So is usually a locally famous, self-taught cook who has mastered the entire repertoire of the country's traditional dishes.

I always eat your photos with my eyes and this ruby-jewelled cranberry jam recipe was no different. I make this jam every Thanksgiving for the winter festive season, it goes so well with the turkey sandwiches that we eat, a thick slice of stuffing featuring as well. The apple in the recipe provides the pectin which is what jells the mixture but a spoon of Certo would do just as well. I too will often add a stick of cinnamon or whole allspice when making this jam, plus grated orange zest and grated ginger root. Try a big splotch on top of a whole small brie, then wrap in filo, puff or mascarpone pastry and bake until golden... This is featuring on my Christmas Eve buffet. This jam is strictly a seasonal thing for us as cranberries can only be fund in winter here in the wilds of France, but it is certainly something to enjoy all year. Thank you for a lovely site. :-)

The first time I made this jam, using apples for the pectin, I was skeptical, but it works beautifully and makes the jam truly a whole food. I used asti for the liquid, attempting to replicate a spread we bought commercially years ago. Attractive jars made the jam perfect for gift giving. Thanks for sharing the background on this author...

That's one of Tessa's Finnish recipes, and we eat pretty much the same lingonberry jam alongside our Christmas black pudding this weekend all over Estonia:) I'm a lucky owner of "Falling Cloudberries" - it's probably the prettiest cookbook I have! There isn't a single cloudberry recipe in the book though - even the cover image is of cranberry sorber:) Have you seen her newest book, "Apples for Jam" yet? That's gorgeous, too!

lingonberries jam is usually available in your local IKEA store

This one is definitely will be on my "to try" list. Thank you for the recipe

I know this may be a redundant comment on your site, but the top picture is just so nice!!! I have been given cranberries after looking for them everywhere with no success and I know now what to do with them!

Heidi, Thank you for another great cookbook suggestion. I will be adding this to my Amazon shoplist. Recently, I have been buying a lot of cookbooks from the UK Amazon site, including my current favorite series, Culinaria. Fresh cranberries are available at the local import supermarket near me, so this recipe looks worth trying. I haven't made apple-based jam since moving back here, since I thought that the apples for jams had to be green apples, and here in Japan, all the apples are sweet. Will sweet apples work as well?

If you cannot find cranberries or lingonberries, can you find green blueberries? When they are unripe, or green, they are actually colored red... and I'm told a mixture of ripe and unripe blueberries makes a good substitute for lingonberries. This cranberry jam looks really good, and so did the cranberry salsa that e.claire posted. This year, the freezer broke, so the (frozen) cranberries got processed very quickly in the microwave with honey to taste. Would be scared to can it since the microwave heats unevenly, but it froze as cranberry jam very well when the new freezer came. (I am totally new here. I found your site while looking for a cheese-cranberry tart recipe. Your site is wonderful!)

We make our cranberries to go with turkey or chicken... sometimes pork, cheese works too - as you will see often see cranberries served with a cheese ball at Christmas . We don't do the over night bit mentioned in the recipe. During the simmering of the berries I add a stick of cinnamon, you could try a touch of clove. If you are planning to give the jars of cranberries as gifts put a stick of cinnamon in the jar before pouring in the cooked cranberries.

Can't wait to get some cranberries and make what looks like a delicious jam to eat whenever tempted!

its gr8 with tast , colour it pulls me like magnet pulling a metal

i love lingonberry jam! Its so hard to find too... :)

You don't find cranberries that often around Belgium, but I will most definitely try this recipe out. Sounds delicious!

Yummy... This is great!!! Zaireen will definitely loves this!!! Can't wait to tell her about this cranberries jam...

This looks sooo yummy. Never tasted cranberries in my life!

Yum. I love cranberries too. If you have any extra, you should try this cranberry salsa. It goes with everything. All you need are cranberries, limes, cilantro, onion and a little sugar. I got the recipe from a Texan, so of course there was a jalepeño in it too. You can take it or leave it (I take it.) www.eclaireskitchen.blogspot.com

Delicious and simple. I just can't get enough cranberries this time of year.

This looks amazing! I have been seeing cranberry jam and chutney recipes abound on the food blogs since thanksgiving. The finished products always look like jewels and sound so yummy, however, I live in a tropical country and the only cranberries I can get here are craisins (if that!). Sigh...