Every cranberry delivered to a receiving station must measure up to the highest standards of quality before it can travel under the Ocean Spray label. After passing through a machine which blows out the chaff, a cranberry must demonstrate that it’s got bounce. Bounce? That’s right. You wonder why? It’s this simple—a good firm berry will bounce. A soft berry won’t. Mechanical separators give each berry seven chances to bounce over four-inch wooden barriers. Berries that don’t have the necessary bounce are discarded. Only the lively ones go on to the screening room where canvas belts carry them between rows of sharp-eyed women who pick out any not up to Ocean Spray’s standards of appearance.
After proving themselves worthy of the Ocean Spray label, cranberries for the fresh market go to packaging machines. Those for ready-to-serve products go either to wash tanks for immediate processing or to freezers which hold them until they’re needed.
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is a national cooperative with grower-members in five cranberry-growing states: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Washington and Oregon. They produce an annual harvest of over 200 million pounds of cranberries.
Contents
[Fresh] Page [CRANBERRY SALADS AND SIDE DISHES] 5-6 [CRANBERRY MAIN DISHES] 7 [CRANBERRY BREADS, CAKES AND COOKIES] 8-9 [CRANBERRY DESSERTS] 10-11 [Recipes with Cranberry Drinks and Sauces] [APPETIZERS] 12 [CRANBERRY SALADS] 13-15 [CRANBERRY MAIN DISHES] 16-19 [CRANBERRY BREADS, CAKES AND COOKIES] 20-24 [CRANBERRY DESSERTS] 25-27 [CRANBERRY BEVERAGES] 28-32
Published by Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360
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