Mulberry Jam Part 2

I finally got to picking berries off that mulberry tree and made 9 jars of jam.  What I discovered, even after including some unripe berries, was that it still needed pectin.  Maybe I didn't put enough unripe berries.  Anyway, I put the equivalent of 2/3 of a box of pectin, the jam set so it's still loose, but it's not runny.  Refrigeration might also help.

That jam is GOOD.  I made bread just to put the jam on it. Mmmm jam.  But next time I make mulberry jam, I'm going to add ginger just for a change.

It's amazing how much food is just in people's yards and they don't even know it.  I showed someone that you can eat plantain leaves (the weed not the bananalike thing) today.  And I found yet another house in my neighborhood with the garden so full of eastern prickly pear that it's spilling down the front of their retainer wall.  Mmm, prickly pear jelly...