How to make mulberry jam for the winter at home - 2 recipes with photos

Selection and preparation of berries

Any variety of mulberry is suitable for making jam. Black mulberry has a richer taste and color, while white mulberry is sweeter, although not very attractive in appearance.

Many are stopped by the difficulty of processing mulberries, but all this can be solved.

Do I need to wash mulberries?

If you collected it near the road, or from the ground, then yes, it needs to be washed. But is it really worth eating mulberry, which has absorbed all the roadside dirt, dust and car exhaust?

Garden mulberries are harvested by carefully shaking the berries onto a stretched blanket. They are clean, so why wet them again?

Do I need to cut off the green “tails” of mulberries?

If you have time and a lot of patience, then prune. If not, then you can cook it with “tails”. They do not affect the taste of the jam in any way.

Mulberry jam with cinnamon and citric acid

• 1 kg mulberries;
• 0.5 kg sugar;
• 0.5 tsp citric acid;
• 100 gr. water;
• Cinnamon, star anise, vanilla - optional.

Place the mulberries in a saucepan, add sugar, spices, citric acid and water.

You can cook it without water, but then the jam turns out too dense and the berries lose their shape.

Place the pan on the fire and cook the jam for 15-20 minutes over very low heat. If you are too lazy to trim the tails, add another 15 minutes to cooking.

Place the boiling jam into sterile jars and seal them with a seaming key.

Raw mulberry jam - recipe without cooking

For 1 kg of mulberries:

• 2 kg sugar;
• 0.5 tsp citric acid.

Sort through the mulberries and trim off the stems. Place the mulberries in a deep container and sprinkle with sugar.

Separately, in a cup, dilute citric acid in hot boiled water. Do not pour in a lot of water; it is only needed to make the acid melt faster.

Pour the lemon water over the mulberries and mix everything well. You can beat everything with an immersion blender, or just work with a spoon.

Fill the jars to the very top, close them with lids and place them in the refrigerator. Here it can stand for up to 6 months and retain its fresh taste.

When you think about storing berries for the winter, you should also think about where you can store them, do you have a suitable place? After all, it is from the storage temperature and processing method that you need to calculate the amount of sugar that should be added to the jam.

The warmer the room and the less heat treatment, the more sugar is needed.

If you are making jam and have a cellar, you can add half as much sugar as berries.

When stored at room temperature, you need to take sugar in a 1:1 ratio.

To make jam without cooking, you need twice as much sugar as berries, but still, store it exclusively in the refrigerator.

Jam prepared in this way is perfect for making delicate desserts and drinks.

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