This section is from the book "More Recipes For Fifty", by Frances Lowe Smith. Also available from Amazon: More Recipes For Fifty.
4 quarts cranberries 1 cup boiling water
2 quarts corn syrup 1/2 teaspoon salt
Wash and pick over berries. Mix remaining ingredients, pour over berries; put on back of range or on asbestos mat until some juice is extracted, then cook more rapidly until skins are tender and juice jellies. Serve cold.
1 1/2 cups butter 3/4 cup water
6 cups powdered sugar 3 cups cranberry juice
Rub stewed cranberries through puree strainer, and use the mixture of juice and pulp. Cream butter; add sugar gradually, alternating with water. Beat well; add cranberry juice gradually.
 
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