Monday, September 24, 2012

Tyler Place Apple Cider


In the last two weeks of our season at Tyler Place we put our apple cider press to work along with our guests. After sterilizing the whole apparatus We started chopping the apples in half to get them ready for the press, no need to peel, core, or anything, since we had a beautiful selection of hand-picked apples. Hand cranking an apple grinder can be very laborious, so our guests kept taking turns while the kids were filling the press with apples.
During our last session during Family Time we processed over 6 bushels of apples and ended up with almost 10 gallons of sweet tasting apple cider which filled the tummies of the participants and bystanders.