Foraging and Cooking Mulberries

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Lots of things to talk about foraging and cooking with mulberries. This is an overview I've cobbled together from footage and video in order to cover what I think is the most important. The key points are listed in the links and timestamps below.
Timestamps
00:24 Leaf identification and variable morphology
00:41 The two different colors of Asian white mulberry (Morus alba)
01:22 Harvesting overview
03:09 Things I learned the hard way (tips)
03:38 Cleaning and dirty fruit
04:10 Mulberry vinegar
04:59 Are mulberries poisonous or hallucinogenic?
05:20 Eating mulberry leaves
06:00 Preserving the harvest
06:15 Mulberry recipes
Links:
Foraging Guide
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Mulberry Recipes
Mulberry Pie
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Pekmez/Mulberry Syrup
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Mulberry Jam
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Fruit Scrap Vinegar
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@rip_lokum 5 ай бұрын

The best side effect of your recipes is the fact that you're making people dive deeper into their own food traditions and foraging cultures. As a Serb who, just by watching this video, got reminded about the fact that my ancestors had made pekmez and syrups out of mulberries back in the day... This means a lot. You made sure I won't forget about it again. Thank you. ❤

@kaylaandrews240 5 ай бұрын

This channel is seriously underrated imo. Great content!

@Tara-._.- 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I just realized I have a mulberry tree that spans about 10 feet of my property property and is bursting with ripe juicy mulberries along with my ripe black raspberries. I could not be happier and am in forager heaven right now.

@Juli-g4d 5 ай бұрын

My dog loves mulberry leaves as much as we love the fruits. We love fresh mulberry pie and mulberry tea. Thanks for sharing.

@delishuspear 5 ай бұрын

Can absolutely confirm, washing the berries will lead to a bad time 😩 really eager to try that Pekmez though - thanks for sharing, Alan!

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

First time I picked bluebs with Sam I asked him how to wash them. He looked at me like I was a psychopath. 😂

@micheleulrich-hb2ok 5 ай бұрын

My Dad and I used to make mulberry wine....yummmmm.

@MageGills 5 ай бұрын

Man I'm so jealous of that harvest. I have a very good size mulberry tree that I only get a handful from, even after shaking the highest branches I can reach 😟

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

Don’t be. Mulberries are a learned skill. I had to ask for help to learn too. If you go out of your way to learn and find good trees the amount you can harvest will blow you away. You can do it!😃

@ElisandeWalters 5 ай бұрын

thank you for all that info

@AbeLink-un. 5 ай бұрын

i see red-mullberry everywhere in Iowa.

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

They’re up here, there’s just not a lot of them. And getting true/non-hybrids is tricky.

@dukenegju 5 ай бұрын

The white mulberry is also sweeter. And actually there are three, 'black', red and white. :) Love

@foodonfire3662 5 ай бұрын

As a kid so many berries fell off the trees we would play 'slip-n-slide! Oh, to be a kid again.

@mattsmith809 5 ай бұрын

I believe if the unripe berries were truly hallucinogenic, there wouldn't be any ripe mulberries to harvest. 😂

@deansherwood7468 5 ай бұрын

There is no need to add a mother to mulberries. The yeast and acidifying bacteria are already there. I add a little vinegar to create a slightly acidic environment to cut down on mold, the sugar, water and we're off to the races. It is simply the best vinegar I know of, and I make a lot of vinegar.

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

It was just in there so I added it, of course you don’t have to add the physical mother. I do always add a splash of living vinegar as it speeds up the process.

@jamstagerable 5 ай бұрын

The berries around my area are still tiny and green. New England

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

Yep. Early July they’ll be ready in MN. They’ve been harvesting in the south for over a month.

@Turdfergusen382 5 ай бұрын

Why do you make tea from the leaves then?

@foragerchef4141 5 ай бұрын

Because it has a nice, mild flavor. I’ve been mixing it with nettles and walnut leaves. One of my friends mixes it with persimmon leaves. As a soup vegetable I think they’re even better.