Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Douglas Memorial Primary School in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. The school is named after the village’s Robert Douglas, who developed the use of the setting agent pectin in jam making to make his fortune in the USA. The father of Robert Douglas was the famous Scottish botanist David Douglas. It was he who founded the Scone Jam Factory when New Scone was about 80 years old. Here his sons learnt the business of jam making and when they went to America they devised a means of extracting from fruit, mainly apples, a setting agent called fruit pectin which was used by preserve manufacturers. They later commercialised the product under the name of Certo for the use of the housewife which proved to be highly successful.
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