How to Make Apple Cider With a Press
Making Apple Cider
My friends received an apple cider press for a wedding present long ago. Last week, they threw an Apple Cider Press Party, and what a treat!
Have you ever tasted apple cider fresh from the press (your own or a local cider mill)? WOW! The cider has a pure, refreshing flavor that’s hard to beat.
Frankly, I was never crazy about apple cider before. However, I
humbly revise my opinion. The difference between the taste of
pasteurized, filtered grocery store cider and homemade cider is
remarkable. With the cider press, we’re talking 30 seconds from press
to glass.
For the uninitiated (formerly, yours truly), an apple cider press is a
machine that essentially grinds up the apples into pulp and then
presses the juices out.
In colonial days, it was common for farmers and families to own a
barreled cider press (and in those days, the cider was often left to
ferment and become an alcoholic “hard” cider). Today, I have a feeling
that the old-fashioned cider press is becoming more popular again,
perhaps because more people are planting fruit trees.
Here’s how the pressing process works:
- Start with a wheelbarrow of apple drops (fallen apples). You
need a good amount of apples to make cider—about 5 times the volume
apples to the volume of juice.
- The apples need to be as ripe as possible, but it’s fine to use
less-than-perfect apples on the ground at any orchard or old apple farm.
(Discard any rotten ones, though.) Blast the apples with a hose to wash
them off.
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Making Apple Cider
My friends received an apple cider press for a wedding present long ago. Last week, they threw an Apple Cider Press Party, and what a treat!
Have you ever tasted apple cider fresh from the press (your own or a local cider mill)? WOW! The cider has a pure, refreshing flavor that’s hard to beat.
Frankly, I was never crazy about apple cider before. However, I humbly revise my opinion. The difference between the taste of pasteurized, filtered grocery store cider and homemade cider is remarkable. With the cider press, we’re talking 30 seconds from press to glass.
For the uninitiated (formerly, yours truly), an apple cider press is a machine that essentially grinds up the apples into pulp and then presses the juices out.
In colonial days, it was common for farmers and families to own a barreled cider press (and in those days, the cider was often left to ferment and become an alcoholic “hard” cider). Today, I have a feeling that the old-fashioned cider press is becoming more popular again, perhaps because more people are planting fruit trees.
Have you ever tasted apple cider fresh from the press (your own or a local cider mill)? WOW! The cider has a pure, refreshing flavor that’s hard to beat.
Frankly, I was never crazy about apple cider before. However, I humbly revise my opinion. The difference between the taste of pasteurized, filtered grocery store cider and homemade cider is remarkable. With the cider press, we’re talking 30 seconds from press to glass.
For the uninitiated (formerly, yours truly), an apple cider press is a machine that essentially grinds up the apples into pulp and then presses the juices out.
In colonial days, it was common for farmers and families to own a barreled cider press (and in those days, the cider was often left to ferment and become an alcoholic “hard” cider). Today, I have a feeling that the old-fashioned cider press is becoming more popular again, perhaps because more people are planting fruit trees.
Here’s how the pressing process works:
- Start with a wheelbarrow of apple drops (fallen apples). You need a good amount of apples to make cider—about 5 times the volume apples to the volume of juice.
- The apples need to be as ripe as possible, but it’s fine to use less-than-perfect apples on the ground at any orchard or old apple farm. (Discard any rotten ones, though.) Blast the apples with a hose to wash them off.
https://www.almanac.com/blog/editors-musings/making-apple-cider-with-press?trk_msg=RHR9EB0G3P841524FL1LF6058G&trk_contact=EEBLFVJ2I0VAQT9EM5JFVJAK9O&trk_sid=SVOM0EQTOUA4Q7QJITSM6ASBOG&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=How+to+Make+Apple+Cider+With+a+Press+(title)&utm_campaign=Companion+Daily
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