Recipe - Diabetic Jam-Using Sorbitol And Pectin

2 One half pound Fruit
Water, (*) see note
2 One half pound Sorbitol powder
5 Saccharin tablets
One half Bottle commercial pectin
Knob butter
One half ounce Gelatin

1.Simmer fruit with water until soft. 2. Remove as many of the stones as
possible, with a perforated spoon. 3. Stir in the sorbitol and bring to the
boil, adding the butter. 4. Boil hard for 1 minute. 5. Remove from heat and
stir the commercial pectin, saccharin tablets and gelatin dissolved in the
hot water. 6. Pour into jar while hot and seal down. In order for this to
keep, this jam must be covered immediately with a very good seal, either a
bottling top or melted paraffin wax.

NOTES : (*) Use One fourth pint water with firm fruit.(damsons, hard plums,
etc...) Use 1/8 pint water with moderately soft fruit.(ripe gooseberries,
etc...) Use no water with soft fruit.(raspberries, etc...)
Recipe by: Marguerite Patten's Jams, Pickles and Jellies

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #479 by Jazzbel jazzbel@grouper.batelnet.bs
on Feb 09, 1997.