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Weekend Musings ~ First Batch

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I had procrastinated enough. I had filled our freezer full of cut mangos. There is little room for anything else. I had not settled down to make jam until the other day.  I had finally found the mood to get down to making some jam. It was an order, actually, that brought the mood on. Well, it was more a mood of "I HAVE TO make some jam". I was asked for 3 jars, please, by Sunday.  Thank you to my previous customer who placed the order, you have lifted me out of my anti-jam making funk. Voila, my first batch of mango jam. First Batch Mango Jam 2020 This batch, I am told, is better than last year. Hubby was the taster - compared the very last bit in the very last jar I have from last year with a taste of the slight overage of this first batch. His conclusion was that this year's batch was better than last year's.  It has a great flavor and set very nicely.  So I am not sure really if I tweaked the recipe differently, I may have been a  bit more heavy handed in addi