Mulberry Jelly
From mbeards2 14 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 8
It's mulberry season here in the midwest and so I sent the kids out with pails and baskets and ladder to collect the bounty from our trees. For those unfamiliar with mulberries, they are a very sweet, deep purple berry that looks a lot like a blackberry but more slender with finer seeds. Read more Trees can grow taller than a house. White Mulberries also can be found. The birds love them so you need to hurry and pick them once they ripen, so as to beat the birds to them. This recipe comes from the "Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, 1966". See less
Ingredients
- 3 to 4 pounds of ripe mulberries shopping list
- 1/2 cup of fresh lemon juice, strained (juice from about 2 lemons) shopping list
- 7 cups of sugar shopping list
- 6 ounces of liquid fruit pectin shopping list
How to make it
- Put the mulberries in a large saucepan and crush. Heat gently until the juice starts to flow, then simmer, covered for about 15 minutes. Put in a jelly cloth or bag, or strain through several layers of damp cheese cloth. Squeeze out the juice.
- Measure 3 cups of juice into an 8 quart saucepan. Add the lemon juice and sugar, and mix well.
- Put over high heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. When it has reached a full, rolling boil, stir in the pectin.
- Continue to stirring and return the juice mixture to a full, rolling boil, one that cannot be stirred down. Boil for 1 one minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove the pan from the heat, skim off any foam and pour into hot, sterilized jelly jars, filling to 1/4-inch from the rim of jar.
- Put on the lids and process in a boiling water-bath canner for 10 minutes.
- Remove the jars of jelly and let them cool on a wire rack.
- Makes about 8 1/2-pint jars of jelly.
- NOTES-mulberry juice easily stains everything it comes in contact with, a lovely purple-red. :-) But it tastes great!
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Mulberries are so delicious and this sounds wonderful. ^5
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love mulberries... we had a tree in our yard but unfortunately it had to be cut down.... looking forward to planting another one next year.. five forks
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