ZESTY ORANGE CRANBERRY SAUCE
What’s a Reverse Osmosis System?
Skip the can-shaped cranberry sauce this year and bring a jar of homemade sauce to Thanksgiving instead. This easy recipe can be made ahead of the big event and keeps for 10 days in the fridge.
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup orange juice, freshly squeezed • 1/2 cup water • 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar • 12 oz fresh cranberries • 2 tsp orange zest • Salt to taste
In honor of Veterans Day this year, we thought we’d share an important breakthrough for both our American military and providing clean water worldwide: the reverse osmosis system. On sea voyages, it was always a problem to have enough drinking water. For many centuries, ships had to carry massive barrels in their hull for drinkable fluids, and going back to shore for more fluid wasn’t an uncommon emergency. And we say “fluids” because fresh water often went bad when stagnant, so sailors relied on wine and weak beer to stay hydrated. The first scientist to discover osmosis was Jean-Antoine Nollet, who used a pig’s bladder as a membrane in 1748. Osmosis is the tendency for solvents to pass through a semipermeable membrane to create a highly concentrated solvent on the other side, which equalizes the fluids on both sides. In less scientific terms, the semipermeable membrane is a filter, and fluids will often naturally stack themselves tighter once they can leave behind other particles through the filter. In the late 1940s, researchers only began to consider osmosis as a potential solution for hydration on voyages because the Kennedy administration set a goal to help develop water shortage solutions — not to mention our Navy was about to become very important in foreign affairs. Researchers from both the University of California and University of Florida finally successfully produced fresh water from seawater in the mid 1950s, thanks to the reverse osmosis system. So what is a reverse osmosis system? Osmosis usually allows a low- concentration solvent to become a high-concentration solvent, but reverse osmosis allows a high-concentration fluid, such as seawater, to become a low-concentration fluid, like drinking water. It sounds simple, but it took a significant amount of research and experimentation before we finally designed the proper system to make it work! This invention was crucial to the well-being of many American military members, especially aboard ships, like our own Captain Lance. If you’d like a high-tech, military-grade reverse osmosis system for your own home, give us a call!
Directions
1. In a medium saucepan, heat the orange juice, water, and sugar to a boil. Add other ingredients, then bring mixture back to boiling. 2. Reduce the heat to medium and cook gently for 10–12 minutes, until the cranberries burst. 3. Transfer the sauce to a bowl or jar, cover, and refrigerate until serving.
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