Mulberry
Morus · Berry
Top 10 pairings
The mulberry is the soft, elongated aggregate fruit of the mulberry tree, genus Morus, ripening through white and red to a deep purple-black depending on the species and stage. Each fruit is a tight cluster of tiny juicy capsules strung along a slender stalk, eating with a honeyed, grape-like sweetness and a mild tartness that floods the mouth with dark, staining juice. Despite looking almost exactly like a blackberry, it grows not on a bramble but high on a deciduous tree, and has fed people and silkworms across Asia and the temperate world for millennia.
Picking a good onedrag
Red-shouldered, firm, sharpWeeping, fuzzed, fermenting
Dark to the stalkBuy itThe only one firm enough to carry home whole and keep a few days. Tarts, pies, folded through a batter at the last moment.
ColourDark to the stalk, even colour
The stalkGreen, the tip beginning to dry
FleshPlump, gives a little, dry to the finger
SmellHoneyed and grape-like as you lift the lid
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What you get from one
100%
Edible part
1.5 g · nothing to trim, stalk and all
1.5 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 4× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Vented, never sealed damp
Airflow