> wrote in message
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> I am hopeful that somebody in South Africa might be a subscriber to
> this newsgroup.
>
> For those of us in the UK who lived through the war we nearly all
> remember the wonderful melon and lemon jam that came in tins from South
> Africain in food parcels. They must have been widely distributed - I
> was a schoolboy in London whereas my wife was a schoolgirl in
> Birmingham, yet we both have very fond memories of this superb jam.
>
> The mysterious thing is that having given us all a taste for this jam
> no exporter ever followed it up after the war. In fact, we have never
> seen it since (and for many of us it would be a wonderful trip down
> memory lane).
>
> We have always been interested to know whether it is a jam that is
> still known in South Africa - or was it truly a 'one off' memorable
> occasion.

The one I remember is melon and ginger jam:

http://tinyurl.com/6v25h

and here's a recipe for melon and ginger jam that also contains lemon.

Good luck!

Scharone