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It's not just the act of capturing the flavors of summer that's appealing. Working with pectin has its own rewards, as anyone who has ever witnessed this fascinating substance transform hot fruit syrups into delicate gels could attest. Pectin is a carbohydrate found mostly in the skin and core of raw fruit.
Made strawberry jam with pectin (a brand other than Certo), however, my mother who is a jam junkie, told me to make the jam without the pectin. Her reason is that jam made with this pectin product typically is not good for more than 1 year or so, where as jam made with just fruit, sugar and lemon juice last much longer.umbug. I've been making jam for over 30 years. I use pectin-usually Certo, because it's the brand most widely available here. The advantage to using pectin, in my opinion, is that you can make jam with a much shorter cooking time, which produces a product that tastes fresher.