We've had homemade cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas my whole life. It uses fresh cranberries. It's not really a sauce. It's more like an Italian ice or sorbet. It takes 5 days to make since it's cooked, strained, beat, frozen, beat, frozen, beat, frozen, beat. In the end, it's frozen and an ice cream scoop is used to serve it.
The recipe came from my great-great-grandma. My son took over making it for the holidays when Mom was too sick before her death.