Yum! Lucky you.

Sounds delicious! I've never eaten mulberry jam.

I don't think I've ever eaten a mulberry! But homemade jam is awesome. Congrats on the nice neighbor!

I suppose silk worms get most of them! Home-made jam. Lovely.

Colleen you say you canned the jam. Do you actually can it or just slap it into jars like the Brits? I've never had fresh mulberries or mulberry jam but I'd love to try them. There are a few trees about here but all in private gardens so I've never had the chance.

We have a vendor at our farmer's market who sells fruit trees and bushes and the fruits from them. This year, he had samples of mulberries, which I had never seen or tasted before and they were delicious! Unfortunately, the only way to get more was to buy mulberry bushes to plant and I'm beyond the stage where I want to grow more things.

I can only imagine how delicious the jam is...lucky you!

@floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK, I used the term figuratively as I do put up jam as the Brits do. I put the jars into the oven when I start making the jams and boil the lids at the same time. Then as soon as the jam comes off the burner, it goes into the hot jars and the lid goes on immediately. In over 40 years I haven't had a failure (and I still have some marmalades I made year ago in good nick).

@ islay, the silkworms only eat the leaves :-)

Mulberries are delicious! I guess they are too soft and delicate to travel well for selling in the supermarkets. I used to work at a place that had a mini orchard for making jams to sell at that business, and they had (as well as regular mulberries) white mulberry trees. Soo good. They taste like a little ball of honey :-)

Yup. That's what I do. I'm not making marmalade this January because I still have plenty left from last year. (January is Seville season here).

My favourite marmalade is grapefruit. My late FIL loved cumquat marmalade, so even though it's very fiddly I used to make it for him :-)

The mucky mess that is marmalade time.

When we first came to town, it got around that I liked to make jam, so I was asked if I would make marmalade for the local Scout group's bake sale stall. I said I'd be happy to if they supplied the fruit, sugar and jars. For the next few days I had random people (few of whom I knew) coming to the door with boxes of fruit and jars, etc. I think I made about 60 jars of marmalade in the end.

Later on we had a little craft market where I had a stall selling jams and pickles, and sewn items. Cumquat marmalade and brandied cumquats were very popular. At the local hospital was a massive cumquat tree, taller that the roof of the building and almost as wide as it was tall. I asked the matron if I could pick the fruit, which she was happy for me to do as it would cut down on the mess of dropped fruit. I would go up there in DH's ute (pick up truck for US readers) with a ladder in the tray and pretty well strip the top half of the tree. I figured (rightly) that no one would object, if I left the fruit that could be reached by a person standing on the ground, as no one else would be nuts enough to bring a ladder :-)

Lucky you, colleen 🙂

I've never tasted a mulberry either. I recall my son talking about eating them fresh from the trees at the YMCA camp he went to in WI. Are they seedy? Do you strain the seeds out?

My grandpa had a kumquat tree that lived a very long time - and his sister, my great aunt, used to make pickled kumquats and marmalade with the fruits. They were pretty seedy. The pickled ones were in a thick spiced syrup - allspice and cloves, IIRC. I loved them as a kid, but have never come across any since then.

We had a calamondin tree - fruit is quite similar and much juicier, IME, and my family made marmalade with that.

My old Pa (Grandfather) had a mulberry tree and he would bring us bowls full of the fruit which we ate with clotted cream which my grandmother would make. Yum!!

I don’t remember any jam being made, pity because yours sounds delicious.