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From: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: (Hard) apple cider
Message-ID: <644@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:59:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: bbncc5.644
Posted: Wed Oct  9 16:59:13 1985
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Reply-To: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: Add sugar to prevent vinegar

In article <251@ssc-vax.UUCP> gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell) writes:
>Hard apple cider is nice but any cider that sat around in our house
>always went to vinegar, not some semi-alcoholic beverage?  Any tips
>on how to get this reaction to happen properly.

 Friends of mine claim to have prevented this by periodically feeding some
sugar to the little beasties doing the fermentation (i.e. by adding sugar to
the cider once a week).
-- 
Morris M. Keesan
keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA
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