mango jam

When we returned to nkhoma after our night in town, ute dropped me at the cottage and we looked at the jars we had assembled because we knew that we had a lot of mangos and we wanted to try making mango jam before they all went off…but we thought we would put it off until Monday evening…well the mangos were at ute’s house and when she got home she said the smell of very ripe mangos was too much…so I headed over with the jars and we got to work with the mangos. Lots of mess—if you’ve ever tried to cut mangos…and then these were quite soft and squishy…but they still tasted good (it was like picking berries…some for the pot and some for me)…then lots of sugar and some water and boil until you think the consistency is right…we had two pots so we added orange juice to one and vanilla to the other…cinnamon to both (adapted from recipes found online)…and I’d have to say we did a pretty good job. We did run out of glass jars but we coped…and I think that it is a good thing we like it because ute has 5 mango trees in her yard and I have one out the back of the cottage and now at the new house there are more in the yard again…