"Jennifer" wrote in message
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It's right on the Splenda site:

• Canning jams, jellies and fruits:
SPLENDA® Granular does not provide preservative properties. It is heat
stable and can be used as a sweetener in canning. Please consult a
canning book for instructions on sugarless canning.

Well, I must have been tired when I looked at that site last night. Thanks!
Guess it won't help me then.

"Julie Bove" wrote in
news:3go_c.599$Q44.435@trnddc09:


Apparently, the sugar acts as a preservative when putting up the
fruit. And because it is recommended to boil the fruit first before
canning, it is conceivable that some of the natural juice and
subsequent sweetness will boil out of it if you were to boil it in
just water. The book I have recommends adding the minimum amount of
sugar or other sweetener needed for good flavor. There is also a
lot of liquid in a jar of canned fruit.

My mother-in-law used to can fruit. She put an absolute ton of sugar
in it and I refused to eat it. There was *very* little liquid in her
jars.


I would not say that all fruit is overly sweet. In fact, I find
most of it not to be sweet at all. I bought some raspberries and
blackberries this past summer that were so sour they were inedible.
I have had strawberries that were the same. I've also had sour
oranges. Luckily, all of the fruit in my yard so far has been
sweet.

Sounds like you're getting unripe fruit and berries.... I've been
fortunate, I guess.

I'm not a big fruit eater anyway - although I love berries. I'll buy a
bunch, wash them off and dry them really well and then lay them on a
cookie sheet individually (so they don't freeze stuck together) and
then put them in the freezer. When they're frozen, I put them into
baggies and just pull them out of the freezer and eat them frozen.
Yummy.

Sherry

"Julie Bove" wrote in
news:3go_c.599$Q44.435@trnddc09:


Apparently, the sugar acts as a preservative when putting up the
fruit. And because it is recommended to boil the fruit first before
canning, it is conceivable that some of the natural juice and
subsequent sweetness will boil out of it if you were to boil it in
just water. The book I have recommends adding the minimum amount of
sugar or other sweetener needed for good flavor. There is also a
lot of liquid in a jar of canned fruit.

My mother-in-law used to can fruit. She put an absolute ton of sugar
in it and I refused to eat it. There was *very* little liquid in her
jars.


I would not say that all fruit is overly sweet. In fact, I find
most of it not to be sweet at all. I bought some raspberries and
blackberries this past summer that were so sour they were inedible.
I have had strawberries that were the same. I've also had sour
oranges. Luckily, all of the fruit in my yard so far has been
sweet.

Sounds like you're getting unripe fruit and berries.... I've been
fortunate, I guess.

I'm not a big fruit eater anyway - although I love berries. I'll buy a
bunch, wash them off and dry them really well and then lay them on a
cookie sheet individually (so they don't freeze stuck together) and
then put them in the freezer. When they're frozen, I put them into
baggies and just pull them out of the freezer and eat them frozen.
Yummy.

Sherry

"Sherry" wrote in message
. 1.4...

I'm not a big fruit eater anyway - although I love berries. I'll buy a
bunch, wash them off and dry them really well and then lay them on a
cookie sheet individually (so they don't freeze stuck together) and
then put them in the freezer. When they're frozen, I put them into
baggies and just pull them out of the freezer and eat them frozen.
Yummy.

I'm not a big fruit eater either. But when I was a kid, my mom used to
serve berries straight from the freezer. I could not stand them that way.
Actually, I don't like any foods that are really cold like that, except for
the occasional snowcone on a really hot day.

"Sherry" wrote in message
. 1.4...

I'm not a big fruit eater anyway - although I love berries. I'll buy a
bunch, wash them off and dry them really well and then lay them on a
cookie sheet individually (so they don't freeze stuck together) and
then put them in the freezer. When they're frozen, I put them into
baggies and just pull them out of the freezer and eat them frozen.
Yummy.

I'm not a big fruit eater either. But when I was a kid, my mom used to
serve berries straight from the freezer. I could not stand them that way.
Actually, I don't like any foods that are really cold like that, except for
the occasional snowcone on a really hot day.

"Sherry" wrote in message
. 1.4...

I'm not a big fruit eater anyway - although I love berries. I'll buy a
bunch, wash them off and dry them really well and then lay them on a
cookie sheet individually (so they don't freeze stuck together) and
then put them in the freezer. When they're frozen, I put them into
baggies and just pull them out of the freezer and eat them frozen.
Yummy.

I'm not a big fruit eater either. But when I was a kid, my mom used to
serve berries straight from the freezer. I could not stand them that way.
Actually, I don't like any foods that are really cold like that, except for
the occasional snowcone on a really hot day.