Make your own Delicious Mulberry Jam (Just 5 Ingredients!)
Filled with Vitamin C and iron, mulberries are little powerhouses of nutrients. Harness their goodness with this simple and delicious homemade mulberry jam recipe.
Growing in my front yard is a beautiful mulberry tree. When I first moved into this new house, I loved the look of the tree; but I had no idea that it also produced delicious mulberries. It was such a sweet surprise when I first discovered the bountiful berries. At first glance, they look a lot like blackberries but are sweeter and more slender.
Mulberries are often used for making jam, desserts and wine and they blend well with other fruits, especially pears and apples. They don’t ripen all at once, but when they are ready they drop from the tree. They can be gathered by covering the ground with a sheet and shaking the tree or although time consuming, by hand-picking each berry.
Mulberries are packed full of vitamins and nutrients. In a 100 gram serving (which is less than a ½ cup), raw mulberries provide 61% of the Daily Value for vitamin C and 23% of the DV for iron.
I was excited to make a batch of mulberry jam this year and I absolutely love how it turned out. My family goes through a lot of jam so you can imagine my delight to be able to make a jam using free fruit from my yard!
How to make Mulberry Jam:
- 2 cups fresh picked, ripe mulberries
- juice from ½ squeezed lemon
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 1 packet Certo liquid pectin
- 6 small Mason jars with lids
This mulberry jam recipe works for other types of jams by simply substituting the mulberries with other types of berries.
After thoroughly washing the berries and removing the small green stems, put them in a medium sized saucepan. Heat it over a medium heat, pressing down on the berries to release the juices.
Bring to a boil then add the sugars and lemon juice. Reduce the heat and stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves.
Bring back to a boil again. Add 1 packet of liquid pectin and continue to stir often. Put on simmer and leave it to thicken up a bit.
In the meantime, sterilize your jars in a large pot on the stove. When jars are ready and your jam has been brought back up to a boil for a few minutes, bottle and seal the jam tightly.
The jam should last up to 2 years if sealed properly and stored in a cool, dark place.
For a lower-sugar option (as with our strawberry jam), swap out 1 cup of the granulated sugar with 1 cup of Stevia.
That’s it! Perfectly delicious mulberry jam to spread over soft homemade bread, or use in our kiflice cookies recipe.
I also made a batch of delicious mulberry-strawberry-blueberry sauce; which we enjoyed with vanilla ice cream.
Grandma’s Mulberry Jam Recipe
Equipment
- 6 4oz Mason jars with lids
Ingredients
- 2 cups ripe mulberries
- 1/2 juice from lemon
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 1 packet Certo liquid pectin
Instructions
- After thoroughly washing the berries and removing the small green stems, put them in a medium sized saucepan. Heat it over a medium heat, pressing down on the berries to release the juices.
- Bring to a boil then add the sugars and lemon juice. Reduce the heat and stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves.
- Bring back to a boil again. Add 1 packet of liquid pectin and continue to stir often. Put on simmer and leave it to thicken up a bit.
- In the meantime, sterilize your jars in a large pot on the stove. When jars are ready and your jam has been brought back up to a boil for a few minutes, bottle and seal the jam tightly.
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Quite tasty. Very easy. I didn’t have vanilla sugar so I used 1 1/2 tsp granulated sugar and 1-4 tsp vanilla. Turned out great. Thanks for posting the recipe.
The links are broken for Amazon. Please let me know how much a packet of vanilla sugar is and Pectin. Thanks!
I had to read through all the comments but it’s 3os liquid pectin and 1.5tbsp of baking sugar
Excellent! I loved the first batch so much that I made a second batch.
I decided to give this recipe a try because I got a bunch of mulberries… flavor is good. I’m substituting sugar for xylitol because I wanted it to be sugar-free. My only thing is I wish you had given actual amounts instead of saying a packet of this in a packet of that because the links that you sent were broken and a packet doesn’t mean anything. It’s not an actual amount. So I just went with what the Certo box said which is that that packet was for 4 cups of fruit and I had less than that so I used a little over half the packet. Hopefully it turns out.
I would be super grateful if you could update the recipe or comment how much you actually used in tablespoons ounces or milliliters.
Thank you so much. I’m excited to try it!!