Cranberry beverages

When I saw this link, 'A Lavish Feast of Cranberries' on Vegparadise.com, my hands were itching to do something with the bag of cranberries I had. I started making the Tangy Cranberry Syrup, but after I added the cranberries to boiling water, I changed my mind and thought it would be way cool to make my own cranberry soda (because I loved Julie Hasson's Blackberry Soda I made here). If I remember correctly, I used 1 or 1,5 cup of cranberries, 3 cups of water, a quarter cup of sugar and some agave syrup and a little bit of fresh lemon juice. I pressed it through a sieve. Next time I'll use a little bit less water, because now I drank half soda-mixture/half water.

I absolutely LOVE the color. It's so vibrant and Christmassy. (And it tasted great. In fact, I have to go make me some more this afternoon, because this batch is already long gone...)


I also made the Spiced Cranberry Nog. Now, I have never drunk Eggnog in my life, so I have no idea what that tastes like and can't say if this is anything like it (or even if it tastes like Eggnog with a cranberry twist), but I really liked this Spiced Cranberry Nog.

I also would like to try making cranberry juice. Preferably raw, so does anyone know if I can just juice cranberries to get cranberry juice? I popped them in smoothies before (frozen ones, they're like little round, red ice cubes ~ definitely going to use 'cranberry ice cubes for Christmas this year!), so I know you can eat them raw...

I googled 'cranberry juice recipe' by the way, and one of the results was this. O, really, that's how you make it?! Well, brilliant. Can't understand why I hadn't thought of that...