Juicing Mulberries

Hello all! I hope that you have had a fantastic week. I am going to walk you through how we juiced the mulberries today. It was a messy process, but not too difficult. If you remember I talked about using the berries that are not as clean for juicing? Well because of the way juicing works you do not use any of the pulp in the finished product so if there are a few little leaves and things still in with the berries that's OK you will not use that stuff anyway.

First we skimmed the floating berries off of the top of the tub.  Then picked out the big sticks and gunk.

We used a frying skimmer for this process

After you have the berries you are going to juice ready to go, put together the rest of the juicing gear. You will need gloves, this is very very important unless you want to look like Barney.

Yes I understand this is kind of a creepy picture....

Next set your splatter screen on top of a big pot like so

No tool in my kitchen is safe from multiple jobs!

Then lay out your cheese cloth folded over a few times

Now it is time to squish some berries! Put a scoop of berries on the center of the cheese cloth and pick up all four corners. Then start to squish out the juice thought the mesh screen and into the pot.

Looks kind of weird from this point of view! 

This is why we use the mesh strainer. As you continue to squish seeds with start to get loose.

After you have squished all the juice out throw away the pulp.

Then put the juice in a container for storage in the fridge until you need it. We made all of our juice into jelly. I like using Mason jars to store the juice.

Now sit back and admire all of your hard work! It takes four cups of juice to fill a jar and about 12 cups of berries to get that much juice!