Plum Sauce, a Japanese recipe from the Worldwide Gourmet

Ingredients

• - 1 kg (2 1/4 lb.) pitted Plum s
• - 1 liter (4 cups) cranberry sauce
• - 180 ml (6 oz.) tomato juice
• - 375 ml (1 1/2 cups) sugar
• - 1 tbsp. pickling spice
• - 185 ml (3/4 cup) wine vinegar
• - 1 1/2 tbsp. chicken base
• - 125 ml (1/2 cup) cold water
• - 2 tbsp. cornstarch