A friend of mine has a weeping mulberry tree and we used to collect leaves from it when we kept silkworms. She kindly let us pick the berries yesterday for a couple of jars of jam.
My son came home with stained hands, mouth and feet! Too cute - I remember that purple blue stain on my own feet as a kid.
I used the Ball's Quick Berry Jam recipe as I had found some Pectin in the UK when I was there. (It was lurking in my sisters grocery cupboard!)
We did this recipe twice for a 8 bottle yield.4 cups of berries
7 cups of sugar (close your eyes while you read that!)
2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
Bring to a boil that you can't turn down...yes my first batch did overflow!Then stir in pectin and boil for 1 minute.
Decant into hot sterilized jars.
We had on toast today as a snack - very yummy.
3 comments:
Ah, yes, we have mulberries here, too. And, the kids came home with purple fingers and lips. The worst part, though, is the birds in the tree over our cars after eating mulberries. ;)
It sounds like so much fun, Wendy! I love jam making but have never tried mulberry. What better way to enjoy your jam than remember all the stained hands while eating it! :)
Oh, this takes me down memory lane - to our last farm with 7 mulberry trees. The girls would pick baskets full for extra pocket money and I would make jam for 3 days! Those bottles lasted us a whole year with extrato give away as gifts ... mmmm!
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