"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> There ws a brief discussion on a food mailing list I read requesting a way
> o make candies orange and/or grapefruit peels with artificial sweeteners.
> I don't think you can really do this without the sugar as you will just
> get a kind of stewed fruit peels. I had ried to make something like my
> Mother;s crabapple and kumquat dishes that were cooked in a sugar syrup
> until they became translucent and the sryup became very think adn gummy.
> i just had pleasant stewed fruit, for my efforts.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about this? Would any of the sugr alcohols
> make such "danied" fruits or fruit peels plssible? The discussion had
> started over candied ginger, something I do miss:-(

I don't think it's possible because the sugar in candied fruit is what gives
it the texture it has. Artificial sweeteners add only sweetness. Not bulk.
And they don't caramelize.

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