One of the things I really enjoyed about our time in Victoria, was making jams and preserves from either our home-grown fruit, or foraged local treasure. We are not so lucky here in terms of an established orchard but next door's modest mulberry tree spreads over the fence to us.
Last year the birds beat us to the limited crop but Vaughan and I picked a small bowl of little berries on Tuesday afternoon. Usually when I make jam, it's a bulk batch but I made just one jar today. There wasn't quite two cups of mulberries, so I added an apple to aid the volume - and then cooked the mix in our microwave, rather than on the stovetop. I'm super chuffed with the end result. It's so pretty!
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