Why golden cider you ask? Because any cider that costs $17.00/gallon must have some gold in it right??
This weekend we continued on the tradition of pressing apple cider with my great, great grandmother's cider press. Due to the late spring frost, however, we had no apples on our trees! One cannot possibly make cider without apples, so we did the logical thing and went and picked them. Aunt Sharon and Eric climbed the apple trees (all the lower apples were already picked) while I caught apples flying left and right (I must say I am a rather talented apple catcher). I was only pelted a few times when multiple apples came from two different directions at the same time! We filled up 4 bags of apples weighing in at close to 110 pounds!
We then came home, cut the apples, pulverized them in Eric's new apple grinder, then pressed the apples into cider. The end product was 7 1/2 gallons of delicious home-made apple cider, for approximately $17.00/gallon plus labor.
We're hoping for free apples from our trees next year.
