This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Cook one pint of cranberries with one pint of boiling water five minutes after boiling begins (closely covered), strain, add a cup of sugar and let boil once. Skim and set aside to cool.
Use one half as much sugar, by measure, as cranberries and one half as much water as sugar. Cover and cook ten minutes - long cooking makes the sauce bitter - then skim and cool.
Cook one quart of cranberries in a cup of water over a hot fire about five minutes, or until the berries burst. With a wooden pestle press the pulp through a coarse sieve, add a pint of sugar, and stir until the sugar is dissolved, then pour into cups to cool. The sauce will not jelly if boiled after the sugar is added.
 
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