Cranberry Juice

 Now is the time to get your cranberries and turkeys on sale in the stores. This year the cranberries are the lowest price I have ever seen them! I got 10 bags for $ .78 each! That is an amazing price considering the cost of cranberry juice. Plus juice should not be all you get from your cranberries. 

So to start with you want to check and clean your cranberries well. Take out any that have any brown spots, wrinkled up ones or any that just aren't ripe at all (the totally white ones). And wash them all real good as well. 

Next you are going to get your biggest stock pot and add 6 cups of water per bag of cranberries. My 16 qt stock pot would only hold 6 bags so I had to do two pots. 

Now I bring them to a boil and gently boil them until most of the berries pop. If they don't pop, I mash them with a spoon against the side of the pan. 

Once they are all mostly popped I strain them through a colander lined with cheese cloth. I don't squeeze it at all that way I get a nice clear juice. (Save what you strained!)

Now I add the sugar. I can't tell you how much sugar to add. I just keep adding and tasting until it tastes good to me. 

Then the hot juice goes into hot jars and into a boiling water bath canner for 10 minutes. 

Sure, it's a lot of work but I got 15 quarts of juice for my $7.80 and a juice that I know has only three ingredients. 
Now take those leftovers that you strained out and put them in a freezer bag and freeze them. You can either make cranberry sauce or cranberry applesauce with them on a later day when you aren't exhausted already.