On a beautiful crisp fall day there is nothing more fun than pressing out some apple cider.
Larry called me on Thursday to tell me that he had picked a bunch of apples to make some cider, so on Sunday, Fiona and I met up with Dad up at Larry's house to make apple cider.
We got to Larry's house around 10:00 and 4 hours later we had 6 and a half gallons of fresh apple cider.
Fiona helped every step of the way. She would take the apples out of the wheelbarrow and into the kitchen where they were washed and cut by Larry. Then the quartered apples were brought out to the press. Fiona helped put the apples into the grinding mechanism and tried to turn the grinding wheel. (She usually got help from her dad or from her Pop-pop. As we were pressing the cider, she was very instrumental as the qualty-control department. Larry gave her a little plastic cup that she must have filled 4 or 5 times to drink the freshest possible apple cider there is. After we would press a couple of pecks, we would put the pomus into a bucket that Fiona helped carry to the compost pile.
She also helped as we bottled the cider holding the strainer so that no apple chunks or seeds got into the bottles.
It was a perfect day. Spending time with Fiona, Dad, and Larry making apple cider.
Here are some photos from the day.
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oh yeah, after the cider operations, we went back to mom & dad's house and watched the Eagles beat up the Cowboys. Awesome.
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way to go FIona! you keep those men in line!!! ps your cider is awesome!!! yum xo kristin
The end result of this project was the most delicious cider that any of us has ever had. Thanks, Larry, Pat, Mike and Fiona.
That pix of you pressing apples, Mike, takes me back in time to Vermont and a stop to see you at one of my favorite haunts! Now you are a Dad sharing that with your little one...how proud you must be! :-)
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