Backyard Cider Making

This is our apple grinder not to be confushed with a Monkey grinder selling peanuts.

Husband believes that this is actually a grape crusher. I know that it was a good deal at the antique shop where we bought my coal laundry stove that I can on. The scent of fresh apples.

Point is that it works fairly well provided you have ready & willing manual power.

The apples this year are a mix of gala, rome, crispin, mac ... really anything we could get our hands on.

Ah fresh off the press.

Pity Mom won't let anyone but Husband drink it truely fresh. The rest of the family has to wait for pasturization. After that the majority is canned for later use ... like after Christmas caroling.

Making cider was a great way to spend quality time with both my husband and children on one of the last crisp autaum days on our homestead.

Here's a cute link on cider & perry making. Perry is Pear cider made some last fall for DH Hunting buddy.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scrumpy/cider/homepage.htm