Description
Bright gorgeous tart cranberry filling thickened with egg yolks and flavored with ginger, orange and a little vanilla sugar. Use it for tarts or any place you’d use jam.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 oz whole cranberries (340 g)
- 1 and 1/2 cups granulated sugar (300 grams)
- Juice of 1 large orange
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla sugar
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 4 Tablespoons cold butter, cut into 1/2″ cubes (57 g)
Instructions
- Rinse the cranberries and then place them with the sugar, and orange juice, orange zest, and vanilla sugar in a 1 quart pot.
- Bring the berries to a boil over medium heat, and then let them cook for about 10 minutes until they start to pop.
- Blitz the berries until smooth with an immersion blender or in a food processor.
It’s not a bad idea to place a towel over the pot while you do this since the berries will be molten hot at this point. - Place a fine mesh strainer over a bowl and then scrape the berries into the top of the strainer. Use a large spoon to start pressing the puree through the sieve.
If you have one a flexible dough scraper will be even better for forcing the puree through the strainer. When the cranberry pulp left in the strainer is mostly dry, scrape the contents from the bottom side of the strainer into the bowl. 
- Whisk in the egg yolks.
You don’t need to worry about the egg yolks scrambling on you since the puree will have cooled off by the time you’ve finished straining it. - Rinse out the pot you cooked the berries in just to remove any seeds that are hanging out in the pot.
- Place the strained cranberries back into the pot and cook over a medium heat whisking continuously until the mixture reaches 175-180F on an instant read thermometer. The mixture will easily coat the back of a spoon.
- Turn off the heat and then whisk in the cubed butter until it melts.
- Pour the curd into a clean glass jar. Refrigerate the curd and use within a week.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Baking Building Blocks
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 64
- Sugar: 10.5 g
- Sodium: 1.4 mg
- Fat: 1.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 11.6 g
- Protein: 0.4 g
- Cholesterol: 21.1 mg