Cranberry sauce

Grated orange or lemon, I used juice also. Ginger is my own superfluous addition.

12 oz package of cranberries. Shown is 1/2 cup reserved to the end.  

Most of the bag of cranberries  

Grated orange or lemon peel. I used grated ginger as addition.

One cup granulated sugar

A few tablespoons of water. I used the juice from the orange

Pepper

Salt

Boil on low for a few minutes until sugar is dissolved then medium until cranberries pop.

The cranberries own pectin thickens as sauce.

Reserved cranberries mixed in.

Taste-test. Adjust with sugar, pepper or salt.

I considered chile flakes.

I considered raisins or currants.

I considered butter.

I considered cinnamon.

But I rejected all that because a voice hear at my right shoulder said directly into my ear, "Dummkopf! To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess." And I'm all, "You talk funny. Get off my back."