Apple Cider Time
So it has finally come, the moment we have been waiting for since we first named our homestead Cider Brook! Yes, indeed, we have made our own apple cider! Well, truthfully, this was a couple of weeks ago. We ended up doing two batches of cider, one with fresh apples and one with frozen apples. I only managed to take pictures of the fresh apples batch because it was the first batch we did, and there was much less of it to do compared to the frozen apples. In order to make cider, you need two things: a way to soften the cells in the apples, and a cider press. Traditionally, you grind you apples with a fruit grinder, which is a menacing looking device with a big funnel on top to throw the apples into and a big crank to make the grinder teeth go round and round. Since we didn't know if we would enjoy making cider or not, we kept things as cheap as possible this year. We bought the cheapest metal cider press we could find that made about a gallon of...