Thanksgiving dinners are filled with tradition, but it can be fun to add new dishes. Today’s recipe for Cranberry Salsa calls for combining cranberries with jalapenos, ginger and onions — with honey and orange juice added as sweeteners. The blend of sweet and savory flavors will perfectly complement turkey or any main dish on your table.

Cranberries have deep roots in North American history. Indigenous people used them for food, medicine and even fabric dye. To balance the fruit’s tartness, they mixed cranberries with maple sugar or maple syrup. Later, European settlers sweetened cranberries with honey or imported sugar. Because cranberries kept well and retained their vitamin C, sailors and whalers once relied on them to help prevent scurvy during long voyages.

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