Here's what I was in the throes of doing today, and heaven forbid I would wreck someone's Thanksgiving over something as sad as a lost recipe,  so here, due to heartfelt reader requests, is my cranberry conserve recipe which first appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch two years ago.

It's not actually mine, coming from my beloved mother-in-law, Dilly, so it's a bona fide Schapiro family recipe.  It wouldn't be Thanksgiving around here without it, and once you try it, you'll find that it's that way in your house too.  It takes a little bit of time, but it's happy, contemplative time, and your house will smell enchantingly like Thanksgiving so I would leap in and do it.  You'll be happy you did!