What were the pilgrims missing to make cranberry sauce?

This is a bit of a trick question! The Pilgrims likely wouldn't have made cranberry sauce as we know it today.

Here's why:

* Sugar: Cranberry sauce needs sugar to balance the tartness of the cranberries. While the Pilgrims had access to honey, they didn't have refined sugar, which was expensive and hard to come by in those days.

* Vinegar: Many cranberry sauce recipes also use vinegar. The Pilgrims may have had access to vinegar, but it wasn't a common ingredient in their cooking.

* Spices: We often add spices like cinnamon and cloves to cranberry sauce. While the Pilgrims did use spices, those were less common than today.

So, the Pilgrims probably ate cranberries in a simpler way, perhaps just boiled with water and a little bit of honey.

Fun fact: The first recorded recipe for cranberry sauce was published in 1796, nearly 150 years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth.