Cranberry Orange Sauce

This saucy side can be prepared by your child with 3 simple ingredients:

1. One 12 oz bag of fresh cranberries
2. 1/2 cup of sugar (1/3 cup if you like it tart)
3. One orange

Rinse the cranberries and pour into a pot. Grate some orange zest into the pot. Squeeze the juice of one orange into the pot. Add the sugar. Mix. Cook on medium heat until cranberries pop and sauce thickens. Cool before serving.

Note: “Cranberries have pockets of air inside the fruit. Because of this, cranberries float in water, and thus, cranberry bogs can be flooded to aid in removal of fruit from the vines.” Show your child how cranberries float. Try with other objects for a sink/float experiment.