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A One-Hour Thanksgiving Dinner is the practice of preparing a complete Thanksgiving dinner in one hour, assuming the turkey breast is thawed. In contrast, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for a small family or group of 4-8 people takes many hours to prepare and may involve some preparation the day before. Convenience foods are typically used to simplify the preparation. The use of off the shelf items commonly found in U.S. supermarkets allows for the meal to be prepared in a short time and at a minimal cost, by someone who is not familiar with cooking. The ideal of a one-hour Thanksgiving can also be achieved by modifying or replacing scratch recipes for time efficiency, though the result will often be less than traditional.

This recipe is for an entire Thanksgiving Dinner that takes one hour to cook. The recipe uses various pre-cooked ingredients and instant foods, and is designed for those cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time, such as college students.

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Weather keeps N.Y. parade balloons flying low

NEW YORK (AP) -- Strong gusts and intermittent rain swirled over Manhattan early Thursday, but Big Bird and Snoopy stayed on track -- albeit a slightly lower one -- to please fans in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Officials waited until right before the scheduled 9 a.m. start to decide whether it was safe for the event's famous balloons to float through Midtown despite the wet and wind.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, usually the "Macy's Day Parade" in informal contexts, and originally the "Macy's Christmas Parade," is an annual parade presented by Macy's Department Store. The three-hour event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.

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The cranberry is a small sour fruit. It is so sour that most people can't stand to eat fresh cranberries alone. Cranberries contain edible seeds and plenty of air. Cranberry juice has been shown to reduce bladder infections in a nursing home environment. Cranberries are popular as juice, dried fruit, and a jam or jelly called cranberry sauce - all with added sugar of course. One single grower's cooperative, Ocean Spray, controls 70% of the cranberry crop.

Cranberry

Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled a volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America. The colonists faced a lengthy series of challenges, from bureaucracy, impatient investors and internal conflicts to sabotage, storms, disease and uncertain relations with the indigenous peoples. The colony, established in 1620, would ultimately succeed, the second to do so among several English attempts. Their story, often embellished, has become a central theme in United States cultural identity.

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The Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 until 1691. The colony contained roughly what is now Bristol County, Plymouth County, and Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Bristol County, Rhode Island was detached from its namesake county in Massachusetts.

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Established in 1888 to standardize the measure with which cranberries are sold, the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association (CCCGA) is one of the country's oldest farmers' organizations. Today, the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association represents approximately 250 growers throughout Massachusetts. This unity has given growers both a single voice and collective strength in promoting the cranberry industry.

The Cranberry Institute is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1951 to further the success of United States and Canadian cranberry growers through health, agricultural and environmental stewardship research as well as cranberry promotion and education.

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccus, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccus. They are found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

cranberry fruit on a cranberry bush

Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to 10 cm tall (often less), with slender, wiry stems, not thickly woody, and small evergreen leaves. The flowers are dark pink, with very distinct reflexed petals, leaving the style and stamens fully exposed and pointing forward. The fruit is a true berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant; it is initially white, but turns a deep red when fully ripe. It is edible, with an acidic taste that can overwhelm its sweetness.

Cranberries are a traditional Thanksgiving food in the United States.

No matter what preparation method you choose, cook cranberries only until they pop because overcooking gives them a bitter taste. Since cranberries are almost 90% water, do not thaw frozen cranberries before cooking them. Thawing will cause the fruit to break down, resulting in soft cranberries. Cranberries may be baked with a sweetener to make a topping or sauce. They are also good chopped with oranges to make a relish.

This is a recipe for a great tasting cranberry sauce that anyone can make. The key is to start with good cranberries.

Cranberry Sauce Ingredients

• 12 oz. package of fresh cranberries, rinsed, sorted and trimmed
• 1 c. cranberry juice (cocktail, a mix like cranapple or cran-raspberry, or any other fruit juice you have on hand)
• 1/2 c. sugar (or a little more if you don't like your cranberries tart)
• 1/4 tsp. allspice
• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

You will also need a large non-alumninum saucepan. Alumninum will react with the acid in the cranberries and make the sauce taste metalic. :-p