mulberries
Posted on | August 30, 2009 | Comments Off
we have a scrawny-looking young mulberry tree on particularly wind-swept part of our property. wuthering heights, pretty much.
this mulberry tree was merely a bunch of pale thin sticks a few months ago.
suddenly it burst out with foliage and then berries followed.
we’ve been idly picking a few mulberries as we went back and forth to the workshop and eating them on the spot, but no more than that.
today i noticed that the tree was really quite loaded with dark fruits, so i got a bowl and started picking.
i gleaned about 4 cups full and brought them inside to wash them and pick the stalks out, and look up recipes for mulberry jam.
they went into a pot with 3 cups of white sugar and the continuous peel from a large fresh lime and i boiled the living daylights out of them.
now i’ve got a rather large jar of fresh jam and am feeling inordinately pleased with myself.
i think we’ll have scones for morning tea tomorrow.
