Dried Cranberries (craisins)

In our postmodern times, “tolerance” is valued over truth, and truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder and as such must be extended to everyone, except those disagreeable and critical exponents of truth who hold to absolutes, or, to put it into theological language, those who seek to maintain historical orthodoxy. Tragically, many professing evangelicals are embracing in celebratory fashion a distinctively non-doctrinal mentality when it comes to defining their faith… Christians who end up buying into this idea fail to recognize that by doing so they are violating the apostle Paul’s admonition in Romans 12:2: “Do not be conformed to this world.” Despite the fact that this kind of neutralism accents diversity, it does so in name only. Conformity is actually what drives it.

Gary Johnson

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Dutch		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	c	Fresh or frozen cranberries
		rinsed and picked through
2 1/2	c	Granulated sugar
1 1/2	c	Water

INSTRUCTIONS

The University Extension of the University of Missouri system and
Lincoln University have developed this recipe for sweetened dry
cranberries:  Place berries in a heat-resistant bowl.  In a saucepan,
dissolve sugar in water; bring to a boil. Pour boiling  syrup over
berries. Put bowl in a steamer; steam for 45 minutes.  (When testing
this recipe, the extension service lined the bottom of  a Dutch oven
with canning rings, added 2 inches of water and set a  Pyrex bowl of
berries inside. The bowl was low enough for the Dutch  oven lid to
close completely.)  Remove bowl from steamer; let cool without
stirring. Cover with a  clean dishcloth and leave in a warm dry room
for 3 to 4 days, stirring  occasionally.  Lift berries out of syrup.
Place berries on waxed paper-lined food  dehydrator trays. Dry at 145
degrees until raisinlike and easy to  handle. Store in tightly covered
container up to 3 months.  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/15/1997
Submitted by Kris Elwood  Posted to KitMailbox Digest  by KrisE56749
<KrisE56749@aol.com> on  Dec 16, 1997

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 10054 Calories From Fat: 336 Total Fat: 37.3g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 102.9mg Potassium: 1114.3mg Carbohydrates: 2445.8g Fiber: 154.5g Sugar: 499g Protein: 0g

In the Puritan tradition George Whitefield wonderfully exemplified in his preaching a stable understanding of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. He used to place lost sinners in a vice. He pressed home the necessity of repentance. But the lost sinner is a slave. He cannot repent. Yet to be saved he must repent. He cannot. He must. His only recourse is to look away from himself to the one who can save. His escape route is cut off. There is no help in himself. His only hope is to call on God for mercy. And a God of mercy will never cast out those who come to Him in faith.

Erroll Hulse