Spiced Cranberry Sauce with Wine and Cherries
Bubba Durand


2 cups Cabernet Sauvignon
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup (packed) brown sugar
6 whole cloves
6 whole allspice
4 peppercorns
2 cinnamon sticks

12 ounce bag fresh cranberries, rinsed
1/4 cup orange juice concentrate
1 cup Dried Sweetened Montmorency Cherries from Traverse City

Combine first 7 ingredient in medium saucepan.
Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Reduce heat and simmer gently until reduced to 1 3/4 cups.
Strain syrup into large saucepan.
Add remaining ingredients to syrup and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the cranberries burst.



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