Have you ever tasted Melon and Lemon Jam, one of the staples of a country kitchen in the older days.

I can remember coming acros a large patch and filling a trailer with the melons to take home to feed the pigs and chooks and hold some back for Mum to make the jam. Yummmm.
Here is a recipe from an old C.W.A. cookbook

PADDY MELON AND LEMON JAM
Take nine pounds melon, five pounds sugar and three lemons.
Peel and take the centre out of melon and cut into small squares, put into preserving pan and cove with the sugar and finely chopped sliced lemon rind.
Let stand overnight.
Boil up and when almost cooked add the juice of the lemons.
Ginger may also be added.

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MELON AND PINEAPPLE JAM.
Four pounds of the peeled firm part of melon.
2 pounds of peeled cut up pineapple
three pounds of sugar.
Boil; the fruit three hours with half the sugar, then add the balance of sugar and boil one hour.

Had thrown them in the bin as I thought they were a weed and inedible and poisonous to stock and didn't dare put them in the compost bin??

Anyway, there are plenty of seeds. Would anyone like some? If you grow them and identify them correctly, that would be marvellous.

Send me an email, if you are interested.

I ate it, so unless it was a different variety of paddy melon I don't think there are any problems with it.

please email me at mrhoneycutt@internode.on.net