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"Scooter" > wrote in message
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> I was in the Mexican food section of the local supermarket a few weeks
> ago and saw that they had a clearance sale on mango paste. It comes in
> a round tin and apparently is sort of like jellied mango. (I haven't
> opened the tin yet; didn't want to do that until I had some idea of
> what I was going to do with it.)
>
> >From a bit of googling, I understand that you can slice this and eat it

> on crackers, with cheese, etc. But I'm wondering what else it can be
> used for. Can I bake it into some kind of pastry? Mango cookies? Mango
> flautas? (Eew.)
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> Scooter


One of my favorites is to use it like you would strawberry jam on ice cream
and make a mango sundae, or even banana split which would be a true tropical
delight!

Wayne

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