Pressing Our OWN Apple Cider

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[@islandgardener158]

I got 20 lbs of apples, peeled cored and sliced them. Then dumped enough to fill a pie plate into a vac seal bag. Boy what a time saver having them all ready to go into the shell

[@belieftransformation]

Great instructions & very innovative builds! Thanks for sharing! Blessings 🤗🇨🇦🌻

[@denisemusicnut]

If you have room in your freezer (you’re probably laughing at the thought), fresh cider freezes well, and keeps the distinctive taste of unpasteurized cider. Our local cider mill keeps a large supply frozen, so they can sell fresh cider all year. Their frozen cider tastes the same as the freshly pressed cider. It’s good stuff!

[@jdrew5367]

We had a small apple orchard, but it also had cherry trees and I think four or five different apple trees. We also had grape vines and a large raspberry patch and a red current patch we would mix different fruits to make jams and jellies. Of course we had regular raspberry jam but then my mom would squeeze the raspberries and mix them with apples make a raspberry apple jelly or Apple current jelly. We also would take long weekends and northern Wisconsin and pick blackberries and we would freeze those until we were ready to make jam and jellies. We would have a lot of blackberries. Seeing there were six people in our family picking berries early in the morning and just before it got dark. Just so we have berries in the winter berries to make jellies and jams with sometimes we would just canned the berries and we would have them with vanilla ice cream in the middle of winter. Great memories. This was a great video. Thank you for sharing.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL Calico Cow Acres videos!

[@minervabird1967]

that’s still a decent yield, and you’ll enjoy the fruits of your labour all the rest of the year, literally. Liking that kitchen floor too.

[@michellemasri6363]

Your floors look so nice! Congratulations on the turn out of those

[@waterlooboy]

Nice job kids!

[@loraypruitt5922]

😊😊

[@bingo45373]

Have a suggestion for you guys take about half of your sweet apples and mix the other half with some tart apples oh man it makes a really good hard cider I use to make wine for Christmas presents it took a long time to figure out the correct amount of yeast and the different brands and what they do you guys just have to play around with it become some of it makes it really bitter

[@BigggRoss]

Just an idea but couldn't you put a shower cap over the plywood press circle to keep it from absorbing the juice?

[@adanur642]

Hi

[@leahr.2620]

I am wondering if I could use my juicer?🤔