Recipes? Mom's Best Cranberry Relish

[elfundeb2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" 
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
> I make a relish very similar to that, using orange juice & zest
> instead of a whole orange and about half the amount of sugar along
> with a pinch of cinnamon.  Like your mother's recipe, it always goes
> over well; unfortunately, because I only make this stuff around
> Thanksgiving, people always eat it the next day because they insist on
> having the canned jellied stuff with their turkey (probably quite
> unlike what happens with your mother's relish, Steve).

There are many variations on the cranberry relish theme.  Mine is the 
same as Steve's except that I also add a bosc pear and some walnuts.  I 
cut down on the sugar, too, but that's because I don't like food that's 
oversweetened.

> But as I brought up the topic, I would like to know how many like the
> canned stuff at Thanksgiving and will balk at any other items claiming
> itself cranberry sauce.  Anyone?  Anyone? :)

I despise the jellied cranberry sauce (I don't like any kind of 
jelly).  We only get the fresh relish recipe because I added it to the 
Thanksgiving menu.  However, both kinds must be served every year, and 
the jelly is much more popular (by a 3:1 ratio).  Only the fresh-food 
fanatics prefer the relish.

Debbie